The Storm, 1911, 1911
Signed right lower corner in Cyrillic with initial letters «НГ» (“NG”) Expretise: - Chemical - technological examination by the Laboratory of Microanalysis Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Jagers, Dr. Erhard Jagers, Bornheim, Germany, 2008 - Art and historical research by Dr. Anthony Parton, 2008 - Expert report by Professor Dr. Mikhail Y. Guerman, member of International Association of - - Art Critics (AICA) at UNESCO, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2012 - Chemical - technological analysis carried out by deputy chief of the department of scientific examination of the State Tretiakov Gallery, PHD. E. A. Lubavskaya, Moscow, 2012 Provenance: - Till 1970 - kept in storage of The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan - 1970 - 2007 - Private Collection, Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan (Major Party projectionist was presented as a gift for the outstanding services to the country and Communist Party according the Government Order of Tajikistan SSR) - Acquired from above in 2007 by private collector, Switzerland - Private Collection, 2011, Paris - Tallinn Bibliography: - 2010, Antony Parton, Gontcharova The Art and Design of Natalia Gontcharova, Ed. Antique Collectors Club, page 70, img. № 65 - 2002, “Natalia Gontcharova years in Russia” (“Наталья Гончарова Годы в России”) State Russian Mu- seum, St. Petersburg, , Palace edition, ISBN 3-935298-23-4 Variant of sketch drawing “The Storm”, page 204, cat. №244 - 1913, Ilya Zdanevich (Ely Eganbury): «List of N.S. Gontcharova’s works since 1901 till 1913» Catalogue page 306 registered as: 1911 «The Storm», probably cat. №125 - 1912, Maximilian Volishyn “Donkey’s tail” Exhibition: 1912, “Donkey’s Tail”, Moscow, Saint Petersburg under supervision of Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Gontch- arova