Reclining Nude and Neskuchnoye, double-sided work

Lot 30§
15.10.2020 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 80 253
AuctioneerMacDougall Arts Ltd.
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
Commission27 %
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ID 412522
Lot 30§ | Reclining Nude and Neskuchnoye, double-sided work
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 40 000
One side pastel, the other watercolour and tempera, on paper, 40 by 61 cm.Reclining Nude executed c. 1921–1922 and Neskuchnoe before 1917.

Provenance: Private collection, Europe.
Private collection, UK.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert E. Lanceray of the Serebriakova Trust.

Zinaida Serebriakova's lovely pastel Reclining Nude splendidly reflects the artist's ability to find and emphasise the natural beauty of a life in which the spiritual and physical principles are in harmony. The poeticisation of femininity is the uppermost theme in Serebriakova's work throughout the 1920s and 1930s, giving rise to a whole succession of inspired pictures of dreamy young models that brought the artist worldwide renown as a sophisticated painter of the female body.

Serebriakova ecstatically delights in her model and creates an unreservedly sensual image of a naked young woman, accurately recording the complex pose with a sinuous outline. Since she did not seek to paint in order to please the public, the artist herself preferred to decide on the extent to which her works had reached their final form, guided only by the tasks that she had set. The work offered for sale, just like the Torso of 1930 in the State Russian Museum, is one of a number of vivacious, delicate works, in which the pastel lends a softness to the tone and the fragmentary nature of the composition imparts reality scene.

The skilfully executed composition on the back of the sheet, depicting figures in a sunlit meadow, again highlights Serebriakova's painterly skill. The sketch is thought to depict her mother, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Lanceray beneath the parasol, and shows her relaxing with a friend on a hillock at the Neskuchnoye estate (now in Kharkiv Oblast).



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