Lot 223: NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH TYRSA

1887-1942 NUDE AND BEACH AT SOCHI, 1937 Nude signed with artist's initials in Cyrillic and dated 37 l.r. and bears authentication by the artist's daughter in Cyrillic on the reverse; Beach at Sochi bears authentication by the artist's daughter and various inscriptions in Cyrillic on the reverse Nude: watercolour and graphite on paper; Beach at Sochi: watercolour and graphite on paper mounted onto cardboard 32 by 16.5cm, 12 1/2 by 6 1/2 in.; 13 by 19cm, 5 1/4 by 7 1/2 in.

Kiev, 1938 Leningrad, 1940, no. 145 (Beach at Sochi) Pskov, 1940, no. 136 (Beach at Sochi) Leningrad, Exhibition of Works by N.A. Tyrsa (1887-1942), LOSKh, May-June 1946 (Beach at Sochi) St Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, Nikolai Andreevich Tyrsa 1887-1942, zhivopis, grafika, khudozhestvennoe steklo, 1992, no. 495 (Beach at Sochi)

V. Petrova, A.Zemtsova et al., Exhibition of Works by N.A. Tyrsa (1887-1942), Leningrad, 1946, p.15 (Beach at Sochi) Exhibition catalogue, Nikolai Andreevich Tyrsa 1887-1942, zhivopis, grafika, khudozhestvennoe steklo, katalog vystavki, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1992, no.495 (Beach at Sochi)