Live Auction 7968Russian Art
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Lot 28

Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)

Portrait of Pierre Nikolaevich Shildknecht (1897-1966)

Closed6 June 2011

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GBP 15,000

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Portrait of Pierre Nikolaevich Shildknecht (1897-1966)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Z. Serebriakova/Paris, le 10 juillet/1955' (lower right)
pastel on paper
21¼ x 16½ in. (54 x 42 cm.)

Gift from the artist to the grandfather of the present owner.

Specialist note

Born in St Petersburg, Pierre Shildknecht was one of many Russians who arrived in Paris in the 1920s and worked in the thriving film industry as a set-designer. In 1927 he worked with Alexandre Benois on Abel Gance's Napoléon.