Lot 156: IVAN ALEXEEVICH VLADIMIROV

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE 1869-1947 NIGHT PATROL signed in Cyrillic and indistinctly dated 1904 l.r. oil on canvas 53.5 by 93.5cm, 21 by 36 3/4 in.

Vladimirov was a celebrated painter of battle scenes, whose depictions of the First World War were featured in British newspapers. Some years earlier, Vladimirov had been sent by Count Leo Tolstoy, the vice-president of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, to cover the 1904 Russo-Japanese conflict. The present work may have been executed during the artist's posting to the front.