Suzdal Russia

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Provenance:
Fenn Gallery
Ann Buell Fine Art

Widely recognized in the West for his images of Taos, New Mexico, Leon Gaspard had many interests that expanded past the Southwest, including to France, China, Mongolia and Russia, where he frequently painted rural settings in small villages. Gaspard took few notes, rarely wrote letters and never kept a journal, which has bewildered curators for more than a century. This image of Suzdal, Russia, roughly 150 miles northeast of Moscow, could have been painted at several points in his career, including as a student in Moscow during the final years of the 19th century or during a late-career visit in 1959 during an easing of tensions amid the Cold War. During that trip, Gaspard, an American citizen at that point, painted in front of the Kremlin dressed in his normal attire—that of an American cowboy.

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