Antique Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1928 Mid-Century Modern the Art Institute of Chicago

the Art Institute of Chicago and

the large globular base having a broad band of 'Greek Key' design

The ladle having a twist decorated whale baleen handle with a silver cap to the end

sometimes reddish

the bust is sensitively and finely carved and polychromed

Antique Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1928 Mid-Century Modern the Art Institute of ChicagoImportant Russian French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus ( in French Pierre Nilouss (18691943), signed & dated 1928. Nilus was a celebrated French Russian impressionist painter & writer of Swiss descent, please biography below. This rather beautiful impressionistic painting depicts a pastoral landscape, with a row of trees to one side & a fence to the other side of a pathway. The painting is signed to the lower