Soldier washing horses, 1910, 1910
Signed right lower corner in Cyrillic with initial letters «НГ» (“NG”) Expert reports: - 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 - Results of the Chemical and Technological examination made by the deputy head of the scientific depart- ment Cand. Sc. Elena A. Lubavskaya, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, 2012 Provenance: - Until 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) - 2007 - Private Collection, Switzerland - 2011 – Private Collection, Paris Bibliography: - Antony Parton, Gontcharova The Art and Design of Natalia Gontcharova, Ed. Antique Collectors Club, 2010, page 70, img. № 65 - Denise Bazetoux, Catalogue Raisonné, page 264, img. No. 421 - State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, “Natalia Gontcharova years in Russia” (“Наталья Гончарова Годы в России”), Palace Edition, 2002 (ISBN 5-93332-072-2 in Russia, ISBN 3-935298-23-4 international), sketch drawing, page 203, cat.№242, cat. №121, cat. №93 Exhibitions: - 1913, Moscow “Donkey tail” described by Maximilian Voloshin (№ 412-450, “Watercolors” (“Акварели”) или № 668-743 “Paintings in Watercolor” (“Рисунки акварелью”)