Lot no. 288
Arnold Lakhovsky: View from St. Petersburg at the Anichkov Palace with the Nevski Prospect. Signed Arnold Lakhovsky 1920. 82 x 67 cm. View from St. Petersburg at the Anichkov Palace and the Anichkov Bridge with the Nevski Prospect. Signed and dated Arnold Lakhovsky 1920 (in Cyrillic). Oil on canvas. 82 x 67 cm. Provenance: Seller's grandparents, businessman Hermann Theodor Heine (1894-1936) and his wife, opera singer Olga Louise Heine, née Sørensen (1896-1961). Hermann Heine's parents, who were both Germans, immigrated to Russia in the last quarter of the 19th century, and he was born in Batumi by the Black Sea (Georgia). Olga Sørensen's parents, the father of German origin and the mother of Danish origin, immigrated also to Russia in the last quarter of the 19th century, and she was born in Krasnodar (Caucasus). In connection with the Russian revolution and subsequent civil war Hermann and Olga fled independently to Denmark, where they met in a guesthouse in Copenhagen. They moved to Berlin and got married, but moved back to Copenhagen in 1933. Then by descendants until today. Estimates : 60000 / 80000 DKK
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Russie, Mobilier, et Divers
1260 København - Denmark
06/02/2016
Offered by Bruun Rasmussen
+45 8818 1111