NIKOLAY BOGDANOV-BELSKY (RUSSIAN 1868-1945) Portrait of A. T. Goncharov, 1935 oil on canvas 80 x 101 cm (31 x 40 in.) inscribed, signed and dated lower left
LOT NOTES Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky was a Russian genre painter, known for his many Realist portraits and landscape studies. He studied painting over the course of a decade, first at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, followed by the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He spent a few years in the late 1890s studying and working in private studios in Paris, before settling in Riga, Latvia in 1921. There, his focus transitioned from portraiture to painting rural landscapes and peasant children studying in the classroom. This portrait of a gentleman, inscribed by the artist A. T. Goncharov, was painted towards the end of the artist`s career.
