VASILY POLENOV (RUSSIAN 1844-1927) The Herzegovian on Lookout, 1876 oil on canvas 127 x 90.8 cm (50 x 35 3/4 in). signed and dated lower right PROVENANCE Collection of Leo Maskovskii, Munich Christie's, London, anonymous sale, October 5, 1989, lot 259 Private collection Christie's, London, Russian Art, October 9, 2009, lot 27 Private collection, England Sotheby's, London, Important Russian Art, May 28, 2012, lot 6 Acquired at the above by the present owner EXHIBITED St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Autumn 1876 LITERATURE Pchela (St. Petersburg, 1877), no. 5, p. 77 (illustrated as an engraving titled Gertsegovinka v zasade s kartiny V.D. Polenova) Igor Grabar, Repin. Khudozhestvennoe Nasledstvo, (Moscow: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1948), vol. 1, p. 390 Ekaterina Sakharova and Aleksey Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Pis'ma, dnevniki, vospominania, (Moscow-Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1950), pp. 140, 475, listed as Gertsegovinka Wenceslaus Fiala, Polenov (Bratislava, 1956), p. 39 Ekaterina Sakharova and Aleksey Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, Elena Dmitrieva Polenova, Khronika sem'i khudozhnikov (Moscow-Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1964), pp. 210, 234, 732, listed as Gertsegovinka Mark Kopshitser, Polenov (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2010), p.152