MANUIL KHRISTOFOROVICH ALADZHALOV (1862 – 1934) Sunny Day on Volga
Lotto 213
4 7505 000
Narodni galerie v Praze' (on reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
20.5 x 31.5cm
Exhibited:
Prague, National Gallery of Prague, Ruske Umeni, 1953, no 38
Literature:
Exhibition catalogue, Ruske Umeni, Prague, 1953, p.11, no 38, dated 1910 V.Fiala, Russkaya zhivopis' v sobraniyakh Chekhoslovakii, Leningrad: Khudozhnik
RSFSR, 1974, p.65 no.25 Born in Nakhichevan-on-Don into an Armenian merchant family, he spent almost all his
life in Moscow. The Armenian artist enjoyed painting etudes of the Volga. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1883-1890)
under I. Levitan, V.E. Makovsky, A.K. Savrasov, and was friends with K. Korovin.