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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Lot 56 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION, SWITZERLAND

Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)

Still life with sweet chestnut, field scabious, ground elder and black salsify

Closed4 June 2018

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Still life with sweet chestnut, field scabious, ground elder and black salsify
signed 'Z. Serebriakova' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 21 ½ in. (73 x 60 cm.)

From an important private collection, France; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2007, lot 97.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

During the 1930s in France, Serebriakova painted many floral bouquets, for which she carefully selected flowers and plants in order to achieve harmonious visual combinations. Her choice of sweet chestnuts in this still life is not accidental: the plant’s sharp leaves and thorns symbolise the difficulties endured by the artist in emigration. Other notable floral still life paintings by the artist include A Corner of a Garden, 1910, Chuvash State Art Museum, and Basket with flowers, 1934, Foundation Serebriakoff, Paris, amongst others.
We are grateful to Pavel Pavlinov and Ekaterina Lanceray of the Zinaida Serebriakova Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this painting.