$6,600
THIS LOT IS BEING SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE Return from the Fields,' [Retour d'un laboureur monte sur un cheval attale a une charrue], bronze with medium brown patina, modeled in 1873, cast circa 1889-1893, length: 24. 5 cm (9 5/8 in.), height: 19.5 cm (7 5/8 in.), width: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.), inscribed with signature on base in Cyrillic 'E. Lansere.' This work depicts a ploughman returning from a hard days labor in the fields. REFERENCES: State Historical Library Album, Moscow, L. 27. Russian Historical Library Album, St. Petersburg, L. 34; Lanceray's Production Album, Nos. 41-55, (in Lanceray's notes as 'Vozvrashcheniye pakharya na loshadi, zapryazhennyye v plug') ; Acquired by Ambassador Clark E. Carr, American Ambassador to Denmark from 1889-1893, and Great-Grandfather of the present owner, and has remained in the family collection since it was acquired. EXHIBITED: 1886, Lanceray and Ober, No. 7. Bulgakov, "Nashi khudozhniki," Saint Petersburg, 1890, p. 13; N.N. Vrangel / Grabar, Vol.5, 'Istoriya russkogo iskusstva', Moscow, 1913, p, 342; L.N. Goncharova, "Realisticheskoye napravlenie v bronze, vtoraya polovina XIV veka," in "Pamiatniki kultury," 1958, N. 70; M.L. Neiman, 'Russkoe iskusstvo vtoroi polovini XIX vexa, T. IX, Kn,2, Moscow, 1965, pp. 224-225; G.W. Sudbury, "Evgueni Alexandrovitch Lanceray, 1848-1886," Lausanne, 2006, pp.112-113; L.A. Dementieva, 'Evgeny Lanceray: Albom skulpturnykh modeley,' Moscow: State Historical Museum, 2011, pp.132-133
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2013-05-18
