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Vasilii Polenov (1844-1927)
Lot 37

Vasilii Polenov (1844-1927)

The garden of Eski Saray in Constantinople

Closed28 November 2011

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GBP 37,250

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Vasilii Polenov (1844-1927)
The garden of Eski Saray in Constantinople
signed with monogram (lower right)
oil on canvasboard
12 1/8 x 14 in. (31 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1882

Specialist note

The present work is closely related to the larger Constantinople, Garden of Eski Saray (1882, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) inspired by the time Polenov spent in Constantinople in 1881-1882.

We are grateful to Dr Eleonora Paston of the State Tretyakov Gallery for her assistance in cataloguing the present lot.