Bidspirit auction | Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Winter Landscape'

Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Winter Landscape' Gouache on Board - Signed in the lower left by the artist.  Image is unframed.    Image: 14” x 19 1/2”    Condition: There is wear to the edges of the paper, concentrated in the corners. Acid burn around the edge from previous framing and sun exposure. 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. Winter landscape is his central territory, worked for the atmospheric light on snow rather than for incident.