Live Auction 11996Russian Art
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Lot 7

Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)

Gatchina

Closed6 June 2016

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GBP 4,750

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Gatchina
inscribed with title (lower left) and further indistinctly inscribed and dated '21. VI/192.../.../Iuri...’ (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and ink on paper
8 x 11½ in. (20.2 x 29.1 cm.)
with a pencil sketch on the reverse depicting Katya Serebriakova standing on a bridge and inscribed by the artist 'Katia/Serebriakova/Pont a...'

Anonymous sale; Etude Couturier-Nicolay, Paris, 31 March 1994, lot 23.
Acquired at the above sale by Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Katya Serebriakova was Alexandre Benois' (1870-1960) great-niece.