Lot number 2637 - Auction 151
GROSSE UND SELTENE IKONE MIT DEM HEILIGEN WASILIJ VON MOSKAU (BLASCHENNIJ - DER EINFÄLTIGE)

A LARGE AND RARE ICON SHOWING HOLY BLESSED VASILIY IURODIVUIY OF MOSCOW, WONDERWORKER Russian, circa 1900 Tempera on wood panel. The haloes made of gold. Vertical crack and border restored. 41.3 x 36.3 cm. A stylistically comparable icon by Dmitrij N. Korin is held in the Palekh Museum. Literature: Lebendige Zeugen: Datierte und signierte Ikonen in Russland um 1900, exhibition catalogue, Ikonen-Museum Frankfurt 2005, cat. no. 105.