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Realized Price:
£78,500

Estimated Price:
£40,000 - £60,000

Auction House: Christie's

Auction Location: London, United Kingdom

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8 King Street, St. James's

London, United Kingdom

SW1Y 6QT

Phone: +44 (0)207 839 9060

Fax: +44 (0)207 839 1611

Email: info@christies.com

Auction Title: Important Russian Pictures Including The Somov Collection

Auction Date: November 28, 2007

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Artist or Maker: Ivan Fedorovich Shul'tse [Choultsé] (1874-1939)

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Description: Ivan Fedorovich Shul'tse [Choultsé] (1874-1939)
Pine forest
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'I. F. Shul'tse. 16' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. (55.5 x 55.5 cm.)
Painted in 1916

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Notes: Ivan Choultsé, a student of Konstantin Krizhitskii, court painter to Tsar Nicholas II, was elected court painter himself just before the Revolution of 1917. This academic artist made his début at the Imperial Art Academy in 1903, then exhibited extensively at the Academy and a number of major galleries in St Petersburg and Moscow. After the Revolution he joined his fellow Russian artists abroad. He travelled around Europe but preferred to work in Switzerland as it reminded him of his native Russia. He eventually settled in Paris and presented his works at a group exhibition ( Salon des Artistes Français , 1923-24) and single artist shows in Paris (1922-23), London (1927), New York (1928, 1931) and Chicago (1933).

Best known and beloved amongst [...] collectors as a great master of snowy landscapes gilded by slanted sunbeams , Choultsé executed a series of forest landscapes in which light seems to come from behind the canvas and glow as seen in this early work. The expressive palette of intense reds, oranges and greens was used by Choultsé to depict the magical effects of the rich light of the setting sun.

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