Live Auction 1161Important Russian Art
After Alexander Orlovsky
Lot 88 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR R. KRYSTYNA TOLCZYNSKA DIETRICH

After Alexander Orlovsky

Seventeen character studies for Russian types

Closed25 November 2013

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After Alexander Orlovsky
Seventeen character studies for Russian types
lithograph
13.3/8 x 9¾ in. (34 x 25 cm.); and smaller
seven of the works are unframed

Six works:
Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski.
Acquired from the above in 1968.
Three works:
Lieutenant Tadeusz Rudnicki.
Acquired from the above in the 1960s.
One version of The glass maker:
Dr. Joseph A. Malejka, New York.
Lippert Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above in 1990.

Specialist note

See D. A. Rovinsky, Concise Dictionary of Russian Graphic Artists, St Petersburg, 1895, p. 494, nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Orlovsky's series of Russian types of the sort easily observable on the streets of St Petersburg were a great success of his and were much imitated and reproduced. See A. Pluchart, Album Russe ou Fantaisies Dessinées par Alexandre Orlowsky, St Petersburg, 1826.