IVAN YAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN (RUSSIAN 1876-1942) Wanderers Under Ilya`s Window (Saints Boris and Gleb), 1910-1915 watercolor and ink on paperboard 27 x 20.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.) signed with initials and dated center right; further inscribed and titled on verso I. Bilibin `Kaliki pod oknom Ilyi (Svyatiye Boris i Gleb)`
PROVENANCE Estate of Natalie Parker through her husband, who acquired the work from a private collection. Collection of Irina Vorobiova, a close friend of Mrs. Parker, whom Natalia left a number of artworks in her will.
RELATED Another version of this work is illustrated in Zhar Ptitsa Magazine, Issue No 14 (Paris: Izdatel`stvo Russkoye Iskusstvo, 1926), p.3