ID 820239
Lot 634 | ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 40 000
L’église du Palais à Tsarskoe Selo
signed 'Alexandre Benois.' (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower right); further signed 'Alexandre Benois' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
14 1/8 x 20 5/8 in. (36 x 52.5 cm.)
(4)together with three stage designs: one for 'Diane de Poitiers' and two for 'Eugene Onegin'
Provenance
Anna Benois-Tcherkesoff (1895-1984), daughter of the artist, until 1960 (inscription on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 December 1996, lot 91.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Mostra dei Benois, Como, 1955, listed p. 40, no. 111.
M. Ghosn, Collection William Kazan. Objets de vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 63.
Exhibited
Como, Villa Communale dell’Olmo, Mostra dei Benois, May-July 1955, no. 111.
| Artist: | Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (1870 - 1960) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (1870 - 1960) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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