Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov - Moss New York Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Evdokia Nikolaievna Glebova (the artist’s sister)
    Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
    Edelman Arts, New York
    Private Collection

  • Exhibited

    ‘Die Physiologie der Malerei: Pawel Filonow in den 1920er Jahren’, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, April-May 1992

  • Literature

    Die Physiologie der Malerei: Pawel Filonow in den 1920er Jahren, exh. cat., Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, 1992, illustrated p. 60, no. 9

  • Catalogue Essay

    Russian painter, graphic artist and poet, Pavel Filonov is today considered one of Russia’s highest regarded artists. Extremely rare, most of his work was donated by his sister, Yevdokiva Nikolayevna Glebova, to the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg after his death in 1942. During his lifetime, he refused to sell many of his paintings or even allow one-man exhibitions of his work; reportedly, only 40 paintings by Filonov are in private hands. According to Filonov, true art belongs to the people. These exceptional watercolors are exemplary and rare.

119

Untitled (Head)

circa 1925
Watercolor and mixed media on paper.
10 x 7 1/4 in (25.4 x 18.4 cm)
Together with a certificate of authenticity from Nicoletta Misler.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Moss

16 October 2012
New York