Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov (b. St. Petersburg 1882, d. s.p. 1954)
“Taras Bulba and his sons”. Signed M. Avilov (in Cyrillic). Oil on cardboard. 51×68 cm.
Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella (1835) by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap.
Provenance: Acquired by the Danish seller's grandfather, who travelled around Russia in the 1920s.
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Russian art, 30 November 2018
Not sold