Kustodiyev or not?
 

Gentlemen, please help. Uncharacteristic Kustodiyev (?!). 19h23, oil on canvas. Left bottom corner of the signature B. Kustodiev

No characteristic signs Kustodieva not, but also difficult to deny.

Look it up in the mountains even though it was?

Well, that is, was, went to Western Europe with various artists, including Shmarova could and write.

This is a sketch of his Caucasian series in 1899. Mention of these studies have in all the literature on Kustodiev. Some of them exhibited works Kustodieva in St. Petersburg 1958, Moscow, Astrakhan, 1968 and 1969.

The question, of course, not under this section, but how much can be evaluated this sketch?

50000-100000 U.S.

Where is that?

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Look.
Not cool right?

"The" Ukraine at the next auction :)

Here, too, a little landscape, but with rocks do not compare ...

name Winter Landscape
Year 1919
Technique board; oil
Size, cm 21,7 x22
Provenance Acquired grandfather of the present owner until 1924.
Private collection, England. Note: Signed in Russian and the date 1919 bottom right.
Date 24.11.2008
Auction house Sothebys, London, New Bond Street Lot 25
Estimeyt 100 000 - 150 000 GBP (151 560 - 227 340 USD, 117 425 - 176 137 EUR)
The result of 133 250 GBP (201 954 USD, 156 469 EUR)

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That's too soon to compare what you can:
Name Type in the Smolny Palace, St. Petersburg
Year of establishment --
Technique board; oil
Size, cm 21,6 x19, 7
Provenance --
Note: Signed in Russian "B. Kustodiev" at the bottom right.
Date 18.04.2007
Auction house Christies, New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Lot 2
Estimate 10 000 - 15 000 USD (7358 - 11 037 EUR, 4983 - 7475 GBP)
The result of 12 000 USD (8829 EUR, 5980 GBP)

Yes, and now is not the time for such sweet predictions, I think ...

That's too soon to compare what you can:
Title View of the Smolny Palace, St. Petersburg
Year -
Technique board; oil
Size, cm 21,6 x19, 7
Provenance -
Note: Signed in Russian "B. Kustodiev" at the bottom right.
Date 18.04.2007
Auction house Christies, New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Lot 2
Estimeyt 10 000 - 15 000 USD (7358 - 11 037 EUR, 4983 - 7475 GBP)
The result of 12 000 USD (8829 EUR, 5980 GBP)

Yes, and now is not the time for such sweet predictions, I think ...

It is in the Crimea because pay? Or there is already so hungry all gone mad?

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Sasha Respect, I think if it had not given the correct version, would combine the job with shit, with the resolution "did not happen Kustodiyev in the mountains and bust