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PAVEL NIKOLAYEVICH FILONOV (RUSSIAN 1883-1941) Arab, 1905 oil on canvas 89.5 x 35.5 cm (35 1/4 x 14 in.) signed and dated lower right. The work was originally smaller in size, it was later expanded by the artist in order to fit onto a stretcher by adding pieces from a different canvas on the top and on the bottom. The signature and inscription are located on the bottom section of the additional canvas. PROVENANCE Collection of Mr. Dolukhanov, Russia. His parents, artists Georgiy Mikhailovich Dolukhanov and Turina-Maria-Aneta Robert Liander attended the studio of L. Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky in the early 1900s together with Pavel Filonov and other students. After their teacher's death, the couple acquired a number of paintings from his collection, Filonov's early works being amongst them. LOT NOTES According to an assessment of the experts from State Russian Museum, the present lot was painted during the early period of Filonov's artistic career. In 1903-1908 he studied at the studio of L. Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky and visited the Near East among the other places. In his biography, Pavel Filonov states that he brought back around 100 oil sketches, made during his five-year long study. He describes the subjects of his sketches as comprised of bedouins, beggars, fishermen, peasants, gypsies, ladies, old men, children, and landscapes. Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky kept the selected works of his students, brought back from the trips, in his possession until he died in 1916. The works were then acquired by Georgiy Dolukhanov. An existing list of the students' works includes 22 oil sketches by Filonov, no. 15 on the list is described as as: A Man, Arab (Bedouin), oil, 90 x 36, signed P. Filonov 1905 lower right. RELATED LITERATURE Filonov. Khudozhnik. Issledovatel'. Uchitel', In two volumes, (Moscow: Agey Tomesh, 2006), vol. 2, p. 77 Yu. Khalturin Ranniye palestinskiye opyty Pavla Filonova, Antikvariat. Predmety Iskusstva i kollektsionirovaniya, 2003, issue no. 10(9) Ranniye etyudy Pavla Filonova. Istoriya s prodolzheniyem, Artchronika, 2004, issue no.5, ill. p. 109 Yu. Khalturin,Ranniye etyudy Filonova: vospitaniye vidyashego glaza., Experiment: Zhurnal russkoy kul'tury, 2005, vol. 2, pp. 56-71 EXPERTISE Accompanied by an expert assessment by G.N. Goldovsky with Lyubimova; Nizamutdinova; Rimskaya-Korsakova, State Russian Museum, April 29, 2014 (available upon request) PLEASE NOTE If you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 234. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 2:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 657. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.