DAY 2 - PRIMITIVES & COLLECTIBLES AUCTION | MAY 30th
Thu, May 30, 2024 09:30PM EDT
Lot 449
ATHANASEI SCHELOUMOFF 'WOLF ATTACK ON A TROIKA'
Sold for
$45
Sold Price excludes BP
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Original oil painting on canvas by listed artist, Athanasei Scheloumoff (Russia, 1892 - 1983), signed lower right. Features a Russian troika being pursued by a pack of wolves. Art measures 24" h x 32" w mounted in a frame measuring 30" x 37".
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Afanasy Iwanowitsch Scheloumoff was born in 1892 in Kamieniec Podolski. He became a battle painter. From 1900 Scheloumoff lived in Balta. From 1908 he studied at the Odessa Art School, and then from 1914 at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under the painter-battalist NS Samokisz. He quit his studies due to the outbreak of World War I. He took part in hostilities in the 1st volunteer corps under the command of General A. Kutiepov. In 1920, he was evacuated to Gallipoli with White Army units. In 1930 he took part in the Great Exhibition of Russian Art in Belgrade. In 1945 he settled in Starnberg near Munich. Athanasei Iwanowitsch Scheloumoff's paintings were exhibited at individual exhibitions in Munich, Stuttgart and Venezuela. Currently, they are found in museums in Serbia, America and Germany.