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Arkadii Soloviev, "Reconnaissance Party," oil
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Passed
Live Auction
Tydings Estate, Rugs, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts
Category
Description
(Latvian, born 1895). Oil on panel, signed in Cyrillic, lr, engraved plate affixed, lc, "Presented to Joseph E. Davies, Special Envoy of President Roosevelt, Moscow, 1945, by Generalissimo Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotov," sight size: 20 1/2 x 33 3/4 in., framed
Condition
age appropriate frame wear
Provenance
Collection of US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post, acquired in the Soviet Union Gifted to the above by Joseph Stalin with accompanying documentation. Then by descent, estate of US Senator Joseph Davies Tydings, Maryland.
