Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich (1874-1947)

Artist, writer and philosopher; a legendary man, one of the most striking figures of Russian symbolism and modernism. Born in St. Petersburg 1874 in the family of a notary. In 1891–1893 he took drawing lessons from M.O. Mikeshina. In 1893 he entered St. Petersburg University, where he studied at the Faculty of Law, and at the same time at the Academy of Arts, where he worked in the workshop of A.I. Kuindzhi, who had a great influence on him. He also studied in the studio of F. Cormon in Paris (1900–1901). Before the revolution, he lived mainly in St. Petersburg and traveled a lot. He was a member of the World of Art association (chairman in 1910–1918). At the turn of the century he was studying Slavic and Finno-Ugric antiquities; published several archaeological reports on excavations. He also acted as a master of book and magazine graphics (designing, in particular, the publication of M. Maeterlinck's plays, 1909). At first, not accepting the revolution and expressing his horror at its vandalism in the symbolic drama “Mercy” (1918), the master, finding himself beyond the Finnish border, lived abroad from 1918. In 1920 he moved to the USA, where he and his wife E.I. founded. Shaposhnikova “Agni Yoga Society” to disseminate the teaching of “Living Ethics”, designed to morally improve humanity on the basis of ancient religions, primarily Buddhism, and modern theosophy. Roerich and his wife devoted more and more energy to theosophy, which they understood not only as a mystical, but also as a social movement. Roerich died in Kullu on December 13, 1947. The Roerich Museum was opened in 1924 in New York. In Moscow (in addition to the special department of art of N.N. and S.N. Roerichs in the Museum of Oriental Art), since 1992 there has been an International Center of the Roerichs with its own museum.

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Russian Graphic Arts

 Lot   DESCRIPTION PRICE
Ночной праздник. Эскиз декораций к опере Н.А. Римского-Корсакова
№ 5 Ночной праздник. Эскиз декораций к опере Н.А. Римского-Корсакова

Night holiday. Scenery sketch for the opera by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Snow Maiden".

Author: Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Year – 1908.
Size – 17,5х21,4.
Technique – Mixed media on paper on cardboard.

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Certificate of P.M. Tretiakov Independent Research Examination. 

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  Lot   DESCRIPTION VALUED PRICE
Пейзаж.
№ 10 Пейзаж.

Landscape.

Author: Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Year: 1910
Technique: Pasteboard, tempera, gouache.
Size: 33х41.

Auction № 5
Russian art of 20th centuries
11 June 2005

Valued price
55000 - 60000 $
55000 - 60000 $
Ночной праздник. Эскиз декораций к опере Н.А. Римского-Корсакова
№ 23 Ночной праздник. Эскиз декораций к опере Н.А. Римского-Корсакова

Night holiday. Scenery sketch for the opera by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Snow Maiden".

Author: Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Year: 1908.
Technique: Mixed media on paper on cardboard.
Size: 17,5х21,4.

Auction № 184
Auction №183
02 April 2024

Valued price
3000000-6000000 rub.
3000000-6000000 rub.
Майтрейя.
№ 23 Майтрейя.

Maitreya.

Author: Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Year: 1937.
Technique: Tempera on cardboard.
Size: 30,5х45,6. Экспертиза НИНЭ им. П.М. Третьякова.

Auction № 171
Auction №171
19 April 2022

Valued price
8000000-14000000 rub.
8000000-14000000 rub.
Тирит.
№ 36 Тирит.

Tirit.

Author: Rerikh Nikolay Konstantinovich

Year: Beginning of the 20th century.
Technique: Mixed media on paper.
Size: 23х30.

Auction № 121
Russian and West-European Art of the XVII-XX centuries
21 April 2011

Valued price
600000-900000 rub.
600000-900000 rub.

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