Live Auction 5961Important Russian Art
Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Lot 154

Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)

Fara Ali, Afdem

Closed26 November 2012

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GBP 37,250

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Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Fara Ali, Afdem
signed, dated and inscribed 'Fara Ali/Afdem/A. Iacovleff' (lower left)
pastel on paper
29½ x 21¾ in.(75 x 55.5 cm.)

Mr Hans Heysen, Hahndorf.
The above's sale: Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 18 June 1970, lot 3.
Christie's, Melbourne, 19-20 April 2005, lot 132.

Specialist note

In 1928, Alexandre Iacovleff returned to Africa after the Croisière noire with Henri de Rothschild. They went together in Ethiopia where Iacovleff made the present composition in Afdem, by the Rift valley.