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Lot 24: AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF ROERICH MUSEUM EPHEMERA, INCLUDING VARIOUS LETTERS, CATALOGUES AND PHOTOGRAPHS, AS WELL AS TWO SILVER GOBLETS AND A SILVER SHELL-FORM DISH, PERSONAL GIFTS FROM HELENA ROERICH TO NETTIE HORCH

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USApril 12, 2011

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AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF ROERICH MUSEUM EPHEMERA, INCLUDING VARIOUS LETTERS, CATALOGUES AND PHOTOGRAPHS, AS WELL AS TWO SILVER GOBLETS AND A SILVER SHELL-FORM DISH, PERSONAL GIFTS FROM HELENA ROERICH TO NETTIE HORCH Various catalogues including Christian Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition , New York, 1920; Various books including: Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya , New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center, 1929; Nicholas Roerich, Flame in Chalice , Book I, Series Ten, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1929; Nicholas Roerich, Message of 1930 , Book III, Series Six, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1931; Nicholas Roerich, Realm of Light , Book II, Series Nine, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1931; Nicholas Roerich, Heart of Asia , Book I, Series Two, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1929; Frederick Kettner and Nicholas Roerich, Spinoza: the Biospher , Book III, Series Three, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1932; Nicholas Roerich, Message of 1929 , Book I, Series Six, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1930; Corona Mundi International Art Center, Roerich , New York, Corona Mundi, 1924; Books from the Signs of Agni Yoga series by the Agni Yoga Society, including: Agni Yoga, 1931; Hierarchy, 1931; Heart, 1932; Fiery World, 1933; Various other catalogues and materials relating to exhibitions and events at the Museum; Photocopy of typed and signed letter from Nicholas Roerich to Louis Horch confirming Horch's ownership of paintings executed between 1924-1928, 29 August 1928; Various black and white photographs and reproductions of paintings; Two Silver Goblets, Mikhail Pivert, Moscow, 1841, with applied open work decoration and 84 standard , height: 8 in., 20 cm, and a Silver Shell-Form Dish, Mikhail Peippo, 1857, with Cyrillic initials for Helena Ivanovna Shaposhnikova, later Roerich, surmounted by a coronet and 84 standard, raised on four shell feet with gilded interior , diameter: 6 in., 15 cm, both personal gifts from Helena Roerich to Nettie Horch For full cataloguing of all materials included in this lot please see the catalogue note entry.

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Collection of Louis and Nettie Horch, New York
Thence by descent

Notes

Books: Nina Selivanova, The World of Roerich, New York, Corona Mundi, 1922; Georges de Roerich, Tibetica I: Dialects of Tibet; The Tibetan Dialect of Lahul, New York, Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum; Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center, 1929; George N. Roerich, Trains to Inmost Asia, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1931; Nicholas Roerich, Flame in Chalice, Book I, Series Ten, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1929; Nicholas Roerich, Message of 1930, Book III, Series Six, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1931; Nicholas Roerich, Realm of Light, Book II, Series Nine, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1931; Nicholas Roerich, Heart of Asia, Book I, Series Two, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1929; Frederick Kettner and Nicholas Roerich, Spinoza: the Biospher, Book III, Series Three, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1932; Nicholas Roerich, Message of 1929, Book I, Series Six, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1930 Corona Mundi International Art Center, Roerich, New York, Corona Mundi, 1924; Books from the Signs of Agni Yoga series by the Agni Yoga Society, including: Agni Yoga, 1931; Hierarchy, 1931; Heart, 1932; Fiery World, 1933; Iskander Hanum (translator), Chasa Vostoka I: Pisma Maxatmii, New York, Alatas, 1925; Listi Sada Morii, 1924; Listi Sada M, 1925; Listi Sada M, 1926 (in Hebrew); K.P. Padmanabhan Tampy, B.A., Nicholas Roerich: a monograph, Trivandrum, The Travancore Humanitarian Co-operative Society Ltd., 1935; Roerich Museum: A Decade of Activity, 1921-1931, New York, Roerich Museum Press, 1931; Jean Duvernois, Roerich: Fragments of a Biography, New York, 1933 (two copies, one in Russian); Richards Rudzitis, Nikolajs Rerichs: Kulturas Celvedis, Riga, Rita Daile, 1935; Catalogues/Journals: Roerich Museum, Journal of Urusvati, Himalayan Research Institute, Volume I, No. 1, 1931; Roerich Museum, Journal of Urusvati, Himalayan Research Institute, Volume II, 1931 (COVER ONLY); Roerich Museum, Journal of Urusvati, Himalayan Research Institute, Volume III, 1933; Urusvati, Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum, New York; M. de Vaux Phalipau and Georges Chklaver, Explorations Ethniques: Expedition Roerich en Asie Centrale, De Leh a Karakorum et a Kothan, No. 17-18, année 1928, Paris, Alençon Imprimerie Laverdure, 1929; Nicholas Roerich, An Address Before the Board of Directors, New York, UR Corporation, 1929; Roerich Museum Catalogue, New York, 1923; Roerich Museum Catalogue, date unknown; Roerich Museum Catalogue, 1930, seventh edition; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Old Masters, New York, January-February 1927; Sherman Collegiate Building, Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Moriah, New York, July-August 1927; Roerich Museum, International Exhibition, New York, March- April 1927; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Russian Icons, New York, October –December 1927; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by Natalie Hays Hammond, New York, December 1930; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Jose Segrelles, New York, April 1931; New York Public Library, Loan Exhibition of Works by Samuel Halpert, New York, Corona Mundi; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Portraits of Artists, New York, 1932; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Ramon de Zubiaurre, New York, November 1930; Roerich Museum, Paintings by Alexandra Cheko-Potocka, New York, January 1930; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary Canadian Artists, New York, March-April 1932; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Carl Schmitt, New York, March 1931; Roerich Museum, First Exhibition of Finnish Art-Crafts, New York, April 1932; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Paintings, Graphic Art and Sculpture by Contemporary German Artists, New York, April-May 1932; Roerich Museum, First Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Paintings, New York, January-February 1932; Roerich Museum, First Contemporary All-Australian Art Exhibition, New York; Roerich Museum, Exhibition of Tibetan Paintings, Sculpture and Art Objects Collected by the Roerich Central Asian Expedition, New York, October 1929; Cordier & Ekstrom, Nicholas Roerich: Decors and Costumes For Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Russian Operas, New York, November-December 1974; Christian Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, New York, 1920; Roerich Museum Bulletin, Volume I, Nos. 1-12, 1931; Roerich Museum Bulletin, Volume II, Nos. 1-6, 1932; Nicholas Roerich and Serge Makowsky, ed. al, Talachkino, L'art Décoratif des Ateliers de Luprincesse Ténichef, St. Petersburg, Sodrougestvo, 1906; Master Institute of the Roerich Museum, 1929-1930; Roerich Museum brochure (two copies); Master Institute of the Roerich Museum, 1935-1936, Annual Report, Roerich Society, 1932; Roerich Room of the Bharat Kala Bhawan (Indian Art Museum), Benares, 1932 (two copies): Roerich Society bulletin; A New Outpost of Science, Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute; An Exhibition of Designs by Nicholas Roerich (two copies, one with handwritten edits); Roerich Pact: Banner of Peace. Proceedings Third International Convention for the Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace, November 17 and 18, 1933, Washington, D.C., Volume II, New York, Roerich Museum, 1934; The Roerich Pact and The Banner of Peace, Ceremony of the Signing of The Roerich Pact, Washington, D.C., 1935; Third International Convention for the Promotion of the World Wide Adoption of the Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace, Washington, D.C., November 17 and 18, 1933; The Roerich Pact and The Banner of Peace, New York, 1947; "Roerich Day" A Symposium on Nicholas Roerich, St. Mark's in the Bouwerie (sic), New York, April 29, 1928; Reprint Nos. 3-9, 11-25, 27-28 of articles from the Urusvati Journal, New York (date unknown); Correspondence between Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation and Mrs. Farb, 1979; Second Report (copy), submitted to the directors of the Roerich Museum from the commission sent by them to inquire into the actions of the Tibetan officials against the Roerich American Expedition to Central Asia; Photocopy of letter from Nicholas Roerich to Louis Horch confirming that all paintings and drawings by N. Roerich, executed between 1924-1928, were sold to Horch. Typed and signed by N. Roerich, August 29, 1928 (copy); Approximately 116 color and black and white plate reproductions of Nicholas Roerich and Svetoslav Roerich paintings, black and white photographs and postcards; "By An Artist Who Has a Museum to Himself: Works by Roerich," The Illustrated London News, July 26, 1930, p. 177; one slide of image of Master Moriya; Two Silver Goblets, Mikhail Pivert, Moscow, 1841, with applied open work decoration and 84 standard, height: 8 in., 20 cm, and a Silver Shell-Form Dish, Mikhail Peippo, 1857, with Cyrillic initials (for Helena Ivanovna Shaposhnikova, later Roerich) surmounted by a coronet and 84 standard, raised on four shell feet with gilded interior, diameter: 6 in., 15 cm, both personal gifts from Helena Roerich to Nettie Horch

Auction Details

Russian Art

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Sotheby's
April 12, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US