LEVITAN, ISAAK (1860-1900). Autumn

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Lot 18 | LEVITAN, ISAAK (1860-1900). Autumn
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£ 100 000 – 200 000
LEVITAN, ISAAK (1860-1900). Autumn, signed.
Pastel and charcoal on paper, laid on cardboard, 50.5 by 73.5 cm.
Executed in the early 1890s.

Provenance: Collection of Ivan Tarasov, a prominent art collector, Moscow, c. 1944 (inscription on the reverse).

Authenticity certificate from the expert V. Petrov.
Authenticity has also been confirmed by the expert L. Torstensen.

Exhibited: Possibly, The 13th Periodical Exhibition of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers, Moscow, 1893.
Possibly, The 23rd Exhibition of the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, Moscow, 1895, No. 103.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, The 13th Periodical Exhibition of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers, Moscow, 1893, No. 3, possibly listed as Osen’ (Pastel’).
Exhibition catalogue, The 23rd Exhibition of the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, Moscow, 1895, possibly listed as Osen’. Pastel’.

Isaac Levitan, the most renowned of Russian landscape artists, is represented in this catalogue by the elegiac pastel work, Autumn. Although Levitan is known primarily as a painter, the depth of his penetration into the life of nature and ability to capture its subtle changes are most apparent in his works on paper.

Levitan started to use pastels in the early 1890s, producing a whole series of striking and expressive works in the medium during the last decade of his life. The airiness and softness of pastel enable the artist to convey the subtlest nuances of colour and to combine a generalised depiction of main masses with the expressiveness of certain details. The present lot demonstrates Levitan’s supreme mastery in a medium that was unusual for him. The picture captures the indefinable beauty and transient quality of Russian autumn.


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