SELF-PORTRAIT

SAMOILOV GRIGORY IVANOVICH
(1904, Taganrog – 1989, Belgrade, Serbia)

SELF-PORTRAIT

1949
Signed and dated lower right: Г. Самойлов 49.
Oil on cardboard
43.3 х 33 cm

PROVENANCE:
Grigory Ivanovich Samoilov (he was called Uncle Grisha), the younger brother of Evgeni Ivanovich Samoilov (he was called Uncle Zhenya), who lived in Riga. He visited his brother in Riga during Soviet times. He was a famous architect and one of the most famous foreigners in the old, and then the new Yugoslavia.
Grigory and Evgeni Samoilov had another brother, who was shot by the communists after the Revolution.

EXHIBITED:

• „The brilliance of Russian painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, The Russian House in Belgrade, May 12 – September 14, 2022.
• Exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Russian House in Belgrade, The Russian House in Belgrade, April 6 – May 31 2023.

LITERATURE:

• Exhibition catalogue „The Brilliance of Russian Painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, The Russian House in Belgrade, May 12 – September 14, 2022. Publisher: Vladimir Peshich, Belgrade, 2022. Reproduced on page 45.
• Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Russian House in Belgrade, The Russian House in Belgrade, April 6 – May 31 2023.

CONDITION REPORT:

The painting is in excellent condition.

Price on request.