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Iosif Evstafevich Krachkovski (b. Warsaw 1854, d. Italia 1914)

Summer day at a country house at Ai-Todor, the Crimea. Signed and dated I. Krachkovski Ai-Todor 1896 (in Cyrillic). Inscribed on the stretcher “The Red Living Room” (in Cyrillic). Oil on canvas. 74×51 cm.

Provenance: The Danish electrician and wholesaler, Ove Viborg-Larsen (1896–1963) and his wife, Irina (Irma) Christine Ottilie, née Vladimirovna Furman (Riga 1899–1947). Ole Viborg-Larsen was stationed as an electrician for the Great Northern Telegraph Company in the 1920s in St. Petersburg, where they lived. The couple visited several of the communist government's auctions, where effects from the palaces of the Russian Imperial family were sold. Here, the couple acquired, among other things, this painting, which they brought with them to Denmark, when they moved back in the 1930s. Irina Viborg-Larsen's sister, Lucia Johanna Vladimirovna Furman (St. Petersburg 1903–1984), lived in St. Petersburg with her daughter, Lucia (the younger), who was born in St. Petersburg 1945. After Irina Viborg-Larsen's death, Ove Viborg-Larsen got his sister-in-law and niece to Denmark in 1956, and the same year he married the sister in Copenhagen and considering the niece Lucia as his daughter. Mother and daughter became Danish citizens in 1959. Lucia (the younger) later was married Aakesen and lives today on Amager. She inherited a Russian tableware from her uncle and mother.

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Auction

Paintings & Drawings, 18 September 2023

Category
Estimate

150,000–200,000 DKK

Sold

Price realised

350,000 DKK