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May 21, 2016 - May 22, 2016
EVGENIY EVGENIEVICH LANCERAY (RUSSIAN 1875-1946)
Karakalisa in Zangezur, Armenia, 1926
pastel on paper
40.5 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/8 in.)
initialed, inscribed and dated lower right; inscribed and dated on verso
PROVENANCE
Alpha Art, Moscow, 1993
EXPERTISE
Certificate of authenticity issued by Tretyakov State Gallery, 22 March 1993
We are grateful to Sergei Pavlinov, Pavil Pavlinov, and Ekaterina Lanceray of the Cercle Lanceray for confirming the authenticity of this painting. The Cercle Lanceray will be including this work in its upcoming catalogue raisonne on the artist, and can provide the purchaser of this work with a certificate.
LOT NOTES
In 1920 Evgeny Lanceray relocated to Georgia, where he spent 14 years until his return to Moscow in 1934. Being a member of the Ethnographic Museum (1920-1922), the Caucasian Archaeological Institute (from 1925) and as a professor of painting and drawing of the Tiflis Fine Arts Academy (1922-1934), Lanceray made multiple journeys to different parts of the Caucasian region, including not only Georgia but also Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia. In 1926 artist visited Zanzegur, a historical region in the Southeast of Armenia, where he painted the Black Church of Karakalisa depicted in the present lot.