Lot Details
Lot 117
Grand Duchess Olga
Russian, 1882-1960
Portrait of Nikolai Kulikovsky on Horseback
Oil on cardboard
Signed Olga and dated 1944 (ll)
28 x 24 3/4 inches (72 x 62 cm.).
Provenance:
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.
Private Collection.
Gury Kulikovsky.
Grand Duchess Olga Archives, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, December 3-4, 2007, lot 1085.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
The reverse of the painting is affixed with a note in Danish, which reads: This picture was painted in 1944 by Grand Duchess Olga for the Chief of Department, C.G. Worsaae, as thanks for his support in releasing her son, First Lieutenant Kulikovsky, from the German security police prison for espionage at the German airport in Vaerlose [Denmark]. It turned out that all the German accusations about his guilt were lies. --C.G. Worsaae
Colonel Nikolas Kulikovsky (1881-1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. The couple had two sons, Tikhon Nikolaevich (1917-1993) and Guri Nikolaevich (1919-1984).
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