Live Auction 17187Russian Art
Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Lot 9

Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)

Portrait of the artist’s wife, Lydia Vytchegjanine (1889-1960)

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 6,250

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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Portrait of the artist’s wife, Lydia Vytchegjanine (1889-1960)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Serge Tchekhonine 1931 Paris' (lower right); with inscription 'Voir Russian Drawing. The Artist’s wife/Ashmolean Museum Oxford 1970/No. 123' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour on paper
7 ½ x 10 1/8 in. (19.9 x 25.6 cm.)

Acquired directly from Pierre Ino (1909-1989), stepson of the artist, by Alexandre Djanchieff in Paris in the late 1980s.
By descent to the present owner.