[Владимир Чернявский]

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В каталог Картин Н.К.Рериха
Добавлены произведения:
Madonna Laboris [1931 г.],

Картина продана 5.6.2013 на аукционе Bonham's London

Картина еще не продана. История может иметь продолжение.
На сайте аукциона приведены интересные сведения о картине, которые не плохо указать в атрибутах:

Painted by Nicholas Roerich in Kulu, India, Madonna Laboris arrived in New York in November 1931, accompanied by Ester Lichtmann. The significance of the work was immediately recognized by the artist's patrons and museum curators and it was illustrated on the cover of the Roerich Museum Bulletin in February 1932. It would appear that by the mid-1930s the painting became part of the Louis Horch art collection and later was acquired by an anonymous private collector, a member of the Rosicrucian Order, a worldwide philosophical and humanistic organization devoted to 'the study of the elusive mysteries of life and the universe'. Nicholas Roerich and Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of the American chapter of the Society, were acquainted and Roerich occasionally contributed to the American publications of the Order.

Madonna Laboris was received with great enthusiasm by members of the Roerich museum and collectors. Although its presence in the museum was brief and its disappearance into a private collection was swift, many of Roerich's friends were deeply moved by its beauty and its message. Katherine Campbell Stibbe, one of Roerich's closest friends, recalls that she pleaded with him to paint a smaller version for her personally. Roerich finally agreed and in 1934 presented her with a smaller version, changed only slightly, but which reminded her of the original masterpiece which she so fondly remembered. Roerich instructed her to hang it above her bed, thereby keeping it nearby at all times and Ms Campbell Stibbe was happy to comply, keeping the smaller version until her death. The painting is now in the collection of the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York.

Так же интересна ссылка на литературу:

LITERATURE: Roerich Museum Bulletin, February 1932, issue 2, vol.2, illustrated on the cover

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