YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887-1938) Les Autos dans le Désert , signed, inscribed "Dans le Tanezrouft" and dated 1924. - photo 1
YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887-1938) Les Autos dans le Désert , signed, inscribed "Dans le Tanezrouft" and dated 1924. - photo 1

YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887-1938) Les Autos dans le Désert , signed, inscribed "Dans le Tanezrouft" and dated 1924.

Lot 40
29.11.2017 11:30UTC +00:00
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£ 40 000
AuctioneerMacDougall Arts Ltd.
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Lot 40 | YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887-1938) Les Autos dans le Désert , signed, inscribed "Dans le Tanezrouft" and dated 1924.
Estimate value
£ 40 000
Tempera on paper, laid on cardboard, 53 by 75 cm.
Provenance: Important private collection, Europe.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert E. Yakovleva.

Exhibited: Peintre Attaché a L’Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique 2e Mission Haardt Audouin Dubreuil. Alexandre Iacovleff. Exposition de peintures et dessins, Hotel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 7–23 May 1926.
Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintre Attaché a l’Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxiéme Mission Haardt–Audouin Dubreuil. Dessins & Peintures, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire Waux Hall du Parc, Bruxelles, 26 April–10 May 1927.
Alexander Iacovleff. An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, USA, May–June 1972.
De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, 28 June – 26 October 2014.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Peintre Attaché a L’Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique 2e Mission Haardt Audouin Dubreuil. Alexandre Iacovleff, Paris, 1926, No. 7, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintre Attaché a l’Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxiéme Mission Haardt – Audouin Dubreuil, Brussels, 1927, p. 5, No. 9, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Iacovleff. An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, Cambridge, USA, Gropper Art Gallery, 1972, No. 5, listed as Caterpillar Cars Crossing the Dunes (Algeria).
Exhibition catalogue, De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré, Cannes, Centre d’art La Malmaison, 2014, p. 39, illustrated.

In late 1924 Alexander Yakovlev crossed the Tanezrouft, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, during the Central African leg of the Croisière Noire expedition, organised by André Citroën.
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