Live Auction 11997Russian Art
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Lot 36 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)

Portrait of Serge Lifar (1905-1986)

Closed28 November 2016

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GBP 62,500

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Portrait of Serge Lifar (1905-1986)
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated ‘To S. M. Lifar/in/good memory,/from Z. Serebriakova./Paris, 22 Dec. 1961’ (lower left)
oil on paper
28 ¼ x 22 ¾ in. (71.8 x 58 cm.)

Serge Lifar (1905-1986).
By descent to Countess Lilian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (1914-2008).
A gift from the above to the present owner.

Specialist note

Lately I had a few sittings: [I] painted two portraits of Serge Lifar, who kindly agreed to sit for me [...] We talked a lot about Pushkin - he has original letters from Pushkin to Natalia Goncharova in his collection! He published a book with the full text of those letters and organised an exhibition dedicated to Pushkin in 1937...
A letter from Zinaida Serebriakova to her daughter Tatiana, Paris, 23 December 1961