YUON, KONSTANTIN (1875-1958) View from a Balcony in Autumn , signed. Oil on canvas, 72.5 by 58.5 cm Executed c. 1910. Provenance: The artist’s studio. Collection of Vladimir Maksimov, editor of Continent, the Russian émigré journal published in Paris in the 1970s and 1980s. Anonymous sale; The Russian Sale, Sotheby’s London, 10 May 2000, lot 44. Private collection, UK. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov. Literature: Yu. Osmolovsky, Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1982, p. 78, the present lot can be seen hanging on the left wall in a photograph of the artist and his family in their Moscow apartment.