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Description: signed in Cyrillic l.l. and dated 1921 oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 119 by 87cm., 46¾ by 34¼in.

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Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist in Berlin in early 1920s by Alexander Konstantinovsky;
Thence by descent to his grandson

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
Born into a family of wealthy coal mine owners, Alexander Konstantinovsky (1880-1938) became one of Russia?s leading financiers. His involvement in the building of the Trans-Siberian railway led to one of the towns along the route being named Konstantinovsky in his honour. Initially he was a great collector of Old Master paintings, but at the time of the 1905 Revolution, he abandoned part of this collection. When he settled in Vienna and later Berlin, he built up his collection again with works by contemporary artists such as Korovin, whose pictures he bought in the early 1920s, when the Gallery of Karl Nikolai, Berlin mounted an exhibition of his work.