Efim Efimovich Volkov 1844-1920 Ex Sotheby's
 

Efim Efimovich Volkov (Russian, 1844-1920)

 
After Rain


signed lower left

 
oil on board


20 x 29cm (8 x 11 in)


Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 30 November 1990.




Efim Efimovich Volkov was born in St Petersburg in 1844, where he studied at the Graphic Art School for the Promotion of the Arts, and also as an

 
unofficial student at the Academy of the Arts.
He remained working in St Petersburg as a landscape painter and illustrator for most of his life, however

 
he did travel to the Crimea in 1879, and the Middle East in 1888.
Volkov was a member of the Preddvizhnik Society, and was elected an Academician.
He

 
died in February 1920 in St Petersburg.

The opinion of experts on this picture.
Whether it belongs to really brush Yefim Volkov ..


Job listing RAD, Lot 14, December 7, will be at the auction.


Provenance though Sotheby's, but in 1990 the experts there was not normal.

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