Bidspirit auction | Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Winter Farmland'

Andrei Afanasievich Egorov 'Winter Farmland' Gouache on Board - Signed by the artist in the lower right.  The image is unframed.    Image: 13 3/4” x 20”    Condition: There is wear to the edges, concentrated in the corners. Acid burn to the edges of the image consistent with previous framing and sunlight exposure. One spot of paint that is flaking in the lower center. 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 farmland and village subjects run through his work from the Academy years to the end of his life.