Ivan Ivanovitch Kowalsky Two Race Horses

Ivan Ivanovitch Kowalsky or Kowalski Paris 1839 -1937 Rare portrait of two race horses grazing in front of a wooden fence near an undergrowth and an oak tree in autumn colors. Thoroughbred horses, one white, the other black, motionless posing in front of the painter. Watercolor signed, located and dated (Bx 19 Nov 2006) lower right with dedication to Me Pevro (?) Paris Bx (for Bordeaux) Framed by Vve S. Castaing in Bordeaux, label on the back dimensions of the frame, large golden wand ( some small chips and gaps) Height 56 cm, width 60 cm watercolor height: 45 cm width 50 cm slight soiling in the sky, traces, without incidence, never unframed Mentioned in Bénézit volume 8 page 18 as Russian painter of the XXth century active in France “Landscape painter, watercolorist, pastellist, lived and worked in Paris, was sensitive to the change of seasons and loved water landscapes. Followed by the results in public sale: the winter landscape, the small stream, undergrowth with stream, undergrowth on the banks of the river or even late autumn in the forest ”… no mention of horses