TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Pencil self-portrait wearing a hat and with a cigarette, head and shoulders, signed lower center ‘Terent’ev’, inscribed on reverse ‘Study of a self-portrait of Igor’ Terent’ev of the autumn 1921 in Tiflis while working in the art workshop Grokavrosta’ with further pencil sketches, on beige paper (208 x 153 mm) in card mount. Provenance: Nina Nikolaevna Vasil’eva (1889-1979, poet).
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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Pencil self-portrait wearing a hat and with a cigarette, head and shoulders, signed lower center ‘Terent’ev’, inscribed on reverse ‘Study of a self-portrait of Igor’ Terent’ev of the autumn 1921 in Tiflis while working in the art workshop Grokavrosta’ with further pencil sketches, on beige paper (208 x 153 mm) in card mount. Provenance: Nina Nikolaevna Vasil’eva (1889-1979, poet).

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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Pencil self-portrait wearing a hat and with a cigarette, head and shoulders, signed lower center ‘Terent’ev’, inscribed on reverse ‘Study of a self-portrait of Igor’ Terent’ev of the autumn 1921 in Tiflis while working in the art workshop Grokavrosta’ with further pencil sketches, on beige paper (208 x 153 mm) in card mount. Provenance: Nina Nikolaevna Vasil’eva (1889-1979, poet).

A FINE SELF-PORTRAIT BY THE COFOUNDER AND CHIEF POLEMICIST OF 41°, the influential avant-garde group active during Tbilisi’s early 20th-century golden age.