Feb 20, 2025 - Sale 2695

Sale 2695 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

SERGEI SAKHAROV (1906-1969)

CRIMEA. 1935.


38½x26¼ inches, 98x66¾ cm. Intourist, [USSR].
Condition B+: creases, abrasions and repaired tears at edges, some into image with overpainting; minor creases and abrasions in image.

The "Swallow's Nest," situated on a cliff overlooking the Black Sea, on the southeastern tip of the Crimean Peninsula, was built between 1911 and 1912. At some point reconstruction added four smaller, gothic turrets on top of the frontmost, highest tower.

Intourist pl. 24 (var)