ID 980725
Lot 52 | Study for the Portrait of Alexander I
Estimate value
£ 800 – 1 200
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Pencil, watercolour, gouache and ink on paper, 35 by 19 cm.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the previous owner.
Russian Art, Sotheby’s New York, 28 April 2006, lot 531.
Related literature: For the finished portrait, see A. Rostislavov, “B. Kustodiev”, Apollon, No. 12, 1910, pp. 7–14, illustrated and mentioned in the text.
M. Etkind, B.M. Kustodiev, Leningrad–Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1960, p. 192.
Boris Kustodiev, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1982, p. 82, No. 190, listed.
V. Kruglov, Boris Kustodiev, St Petersburg, Zolotoi vek, 2007, p. 33, illustrated; p. 451, listed.
The present lot is a study for the portrait of Alexander I, a pair to the portrait of Nicholas II, executed by Boris Kustodiev in 1906 for the Officers’ Assembly of the Life Guards Finland Regiment in St Petersburg, now in the collection of the State Russian Museum.
| Artist: | Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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