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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Lot 8

Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)

Le Roy se promenait par tous les temps à Versailles

Closed6 June 2016

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Le Roy se promenait par tous les temps à Versailles
signed, inscribed with title, further inscribed and dated 'Alexandre Benois./souvenir d'un tableau/à l'aquarelle peint en/1898/et qui appartient à/Eugène Lanceray.' (on a label attached to the reverse of the mount); with inscription from Alexandre Djanchieff 'cf. monographie de M Etkind, illustration no. 9 se/trouvant au Musée d'Odessa/Provenance/Succession de Mme Tcherkesoff (fille du peintre)' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil, ink and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper
9¾ x 8 1/8 in. (24.8 x 20.8 cm.)

Acquired directly from Anne Benois-Tcherkessoff (1895-1984), daughter of the artist, by Alexandre Djanchieff in Paris in the 1970s.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Part of the series The last promenades of Louis XIV, per the artist's and Alexandre Djanchieff's inscriptions on the reverse of the mount, this work is a variation of Benois's 1898 watercolour by the same title. The 1898 variant belonged to Eugène Lanceray and is now held in the Odessa Fine Arts Museum.