Live Auction 5961Important Russian Art
Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)
Lot 32 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR R. KRYSTYNA TOLCZYNSKA DIETRICH

Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)

Self-portrait as a young man with skull

Closed26 November 2012

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GBP 9,375

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Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)
Self-portrait as a young man with skull
signed with initials, signed in Persian and dated '18 AO 09,/Orlovsky' (upper left)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
6 x 7 in. (15.2 x 17.8 cm.)

Aleksander and Walentyna Janta-Polczynski, New York.
Acquired from the above in 1971.

Specialist note

Orlovsky often wrote his surname, not in Russian or in French but with Persian letters (Baron N. Wrangel, 'Romanticism in painting during Alexander's epoch and the Great Patriotic War of 1912', Starye Gody [The old days], June-September 1908, p. 393.

For further information on this artist and the collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska please see lot 31.