Lot 16: VASILII DMITRIEVICH POLENOV (RUSSIAN, 1844-1927) The Herzegovian on loo

VASILII DMITRIEVICH POLENOV (RUSSIAN, 1844-1927) The Herzegovian on lookout signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘1876’ (lower right) oil on canvas 127 x 90.8cm (50 x 35 3/4in).

Provenance Collection of Leo Maskovskii, Munich Christie’s, London, anonymous sale, 5 October 1989, lot 259 Private collection Christie’s, London, Russian Art, 9 October 2009, lot 27 Private collection, England Sotheby’s, London, Important Russian Art, 28 May 2012, lot 6 Acquired from above by the present owner Exhibited St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Autumn 1876 Literature Pchela, 1877, no. 5, p. 77, illustrated engraving titled Gertsegovinka v zasade s kartiny V.D. Polenova I. Grabar, Repin. Khudozhestvennoe Nasledstvo, Vol. 1, Moscow, 1948, p. 390 E. Sakharova, A. Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Pis’ma, dnevniki, vospominania, Moscow, 1950, pp. 140 and 475, listed as Gertsegovinka V. Fiala, Polenov, Bratislava, 1956, p. 39 E. Sakharova, A. Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, Elena Dmitrieva Polenova, Khronika sem’i khudozhnikov, Moscow, 1964, pp. 210, 234, 732, listed as Gertsegovinka M. Kopshitser, Polenov, Moscow, 2010, p.152 14