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KONSTANTIN KOROVIN (RUSSIAN 1861-1939), 'Sun Dappled Park', 19[0?]4, oil on panel, 48.4 x 64.3 cm (19 x 25 1/4 in.), signed 'K. Korovin 19[0?]4' lower right, PROVENANCE: Private California collection since 1970s. LOT NOTES: After working on stage designs for the celebrated arts patron, Savva Mamontov`s private Opera House at Abramtsevo, the young Konstantin Korovin was able to put aside money to fund his first trip to France and Spain in 1885. The passion for the works of Western European artists, particularly the Impressionist, was perhaps first encouraged by Korovin's instructor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Vasily Dimitrievich Polenov. Upon seeing their works, Korovin famously proclaimed that in them he found "everything he was scolded for back home in Moscow." The trip would prove pivotal to the development of the artist's career, and Korovin would return to views of the city life of Paris time and time again. Sun Dappled Park `s depiction of the play of warm afternoon light through the trees of a park may have been executed during one of Korovin's many visits to Paris, where he eventually eventually settled with his son in 1923.