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Lot No. 4

NICHOLAS ROERICH
1874-1947

UNTITLED (CLOUDS)
19.5 x 25.5 in (49.5 x 64.7 cm)
Tempera on board
1919
Signed & Dated: Bottom Right

` 2,00,00,000 - 3,00,00,000 | $ 243,902 - 365,853

Exhibited: Nicholas Roerich Taidenäyttely, Salon
Strindberg, Helsinki, March–April 1919

Published: Exhibition catalogue, Nicholas Roerich
Taidenäyttely, Helsinki, Lindbergs tryckeri, 1919, p. 6, No.
72, listed as Saaria (edition in Finnish)

Exhibition catalogue, Nicholas Roerich Taidenäyttely,
Helsinki, Lindbergs tryckeri, 1919, p. 6, No. 72, listed as
Holmar (edition in Swedish)

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed in the past
by (late) Olga Glebova, former Senior Researcher at the
Roerich Museum in Moscow and an expert on the artist

We would like to thank Gvido Trepsa, director of the
Nicholas Roerich museum, New York for his assistance in
cataloguing the work in the past

Provenance: Property from a collection based in Mumbai.
This lot was previously auctioned at Rago 19th/20th
Century American/European Art, 17 November, 2012.

This lot is a National Art Treasure - Non Exportable Item
(payment only in Indian Rupees)

The presented lot listed in the Finnish and Swedish
Editions of the 1919 exhibition catalogue