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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A NIKOLAEVSKY SOLDIER IN THE CAUCASUS
Lot 411

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A NIKOLAEVSKY SOLDIER IN THE CAUCASUS

AFTER THE MODEL BY LEONID POSEN (1849 - 1921), CIRCA 1890

Closed27 November 2017

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A NIKOLAEVSKY SOLDIER IN THE CAUCASUS
AFTER THE MODEL BY LEONID POSEN (1849 - 1921), CIRCA 1890
Realistically cast as a standing soldier, wearing a fur coat, cloak and hat, lighting his pipe, with a rifle resting on his shoulder, on a red marble base, with brown patina, signed in Cyrillic ‘L. Pozen' on the base
18½ in. (47 cm.) high, excluding marble base

Specialist note

Leonid Posen's model of a Nikolaevsky Soldier in the Caucasus was exhibited at the 20th Itinerant Exhibition in 1892-1893, see N.P. Sobko, Illustrirovanny katalog XX peredvizhnoi vystavki kartin Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, St Petersburg, 1892, p. 2, no. 71. For a similar model from the Ivan Pavlov's Apartment Museum see S. Volokhov, N. Gromov, Skulptor Peredvizhnik Lepta Pozena, St Petersburg, 2014, p. 129. Another model is illustrated in L. Vladich, Leonid Volodimirovich Pozen, Kiev, 1961, p. 25.

A comparable bronze model by Posen was sold Sotheby's, New York, 26-28 April 2006, lot 503.