LOT 84
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Lot 84
A RUSSIAN ICON OF THE SOOTHE MY ILLS MOTHER OF GOD, CIRCA 1800. The infant Christ with outstretched scroll rests in his mother's lap, the borders with the three hierarchs and a monastic saint. The icon inscribed lower right "Painted in the Year 1808" and verso with MOSGOSTORG label and export stamp. 7.75 inches x 6.25 inches (19.5 x 16 cm).
Estimate:
$800 - 1,200
€ 560 - 840
Beginning in the 1920's, the fledgling Soviet government began selling antiques and art to combat chronic shortages of foreign currency as well as expunging religious imagery from the new atheistic society. It was through the various commission shops and Mosgostorg that many of the best Russian icons and objects of art were acquired by those westerners who were able to travel to the Soviet Union at this time.
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