Bidspirit auction | Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Horse Drawn

Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Horse Drawn Sleigh in Snow' Gouache on Paper - Signed by the artist in the lower right.  Image is unframed but mounted on thick paper.    Image: 13 1/2” x 20 1/2”    Condition: The upper right corner of the mounting paper is torn with the lower left corner tearing, but still attached. Toning around the edge of the image from previous framing and sunlight exposure. The paint is bright and vibrant. See images for details.    Artist Bio: Andrei Afanasievich Egorov (1878–1954), known in Estonia as Andrei Jegorov, was left deaf by a childhood injury and educated at the St. Petersburg School for the Deaf before entering the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under Ilya Repin and worked in Repin's studio in 1903–04. He is identified above all with Russian and Estonian winter subjects — snow-covered roads, villages, and horse-drawn sleigh and troika scenes — handled in the Repin lineage of Russian realism inflected by Impressionism, with broken color and atmospheric snow-light. Gouache is entirely characteristic of him; he worked it extensively alongside oil and returned to these winter subjects repeatedly in small format. Horse-drawn sleighs in snow are the subject he returned to most, and the one that carries his name in the market.