Live Auction 7772Russian Art
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Lot 447

Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)

Portrait of Aleksandr Petrovich Prokopenko (1886-1954)

Closed2 December 2009

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GBP 32,450

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Portrait of Aleksandr Petrovich Prokopenko (1886-1954)
inscribed in Russian and dated 'To Aleksandr Petrovich Prokopenko/from Z. Serebriakova/19 November 1926' (upper left)
pastel on paper
24½ x 18¼ in. (62.3 x 46.3 cm.)
Executed in 1926

Specialist note

Aleksandr Prokopenko was an oculist, a man of letters and a public figure. He was born in Kharkov and fought in both World War I and the Civil War before emigrating to France.