Shchukin Stepan

This painting was lost as a result of looting in the Grozny Museum of Fine Arts during military operations in Chechnya in the mid-1990s. 

In October 2001 the painting was discovered in a Sotheby’s sales catalogue valued at US$88,500 each.

As a result of measures taken through the Russian National Interpol Bureau the portrait was removed from the sale and returned to Russia in 2002