Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) - Himalayan Peaks with Crimson Clouds, c. 1930's

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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) - Himalayan Peaks with Crimson Clouds, c. 1930's

icholas Roerich (1874-1947) | Russian Himalayan Peaks with Crimson Clouds, c. 1930's Tempera on Cardboard Signed: Signed with the artist’s monogram (lower right). Dimensions: Framed: 50 × 57.5 cm | 19.7 × 22.6 in Artwork: 33 × 40 cm | 13 × 15.7 in Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Louis L. Horch, New York. Private family collection, New York. Private collection, Germany, since the 1990s. Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 2010s. Condition: Fair condition: the board is cracked through at the lower right corner (a split of about 6–7 cm, unrepaired but stable) and the upper-left part of the sky is thin and abraded; otherwise untouched, with no retouching in normal or ultraviolet light, the matte tempera surface well bonded and the peaks and crimson clouds fully intact; wear and small losses to the edges and corners of the board. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Details on our Shipping & Export Information page (auroraathena.com/shipping/). Conditions of Sale: All lots are sold as is, in the condition described. The condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. Attributions and the five-year authenticity guarantee are governed by Section 4 (Returns and Refunds) of our Terms and Conditions. All enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. By placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions in full (auroraathena.com/auction-terms-and-conditions/). -- Snow peaks rise above a crimson cloud, beyond a violet ridge and the deep folds of a Himalayan valley. This small tempera belongs to the extensive body of Himalayan mountain paintings that occupied Nicholas Roerich from the mid-1920s onward and continued after he settled in the Kullu Valley at the end of 1928. Working in tempera on cardboard, a medium particularly suited to the clear, matte surfaces of his mature work, Roerich repeatedly returned to the changing light, colour and contours of the high ranges. The handling here is characteristic: the mountain forms are built from broad, interlocking planes, the snow picked out in pale, chalky highlights, while the sky is reduced to an almost abstract band of intense colour. The work bears the artist’s characteristic monogram at lower right. Compact in scale yet highly resolved in composition, works of this kind distil Roerich’s vision of the Himalayas into concentrated arrangements of colour and form. For Roerich, the mountains were more than a landscape motif. Throughout his work and writings, the Himalayas became closely associated with ideas of transcendence, spiritual aspiration and the meeting of the earthly and the sublime.

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