Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Lot 11

Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)

Fantasy; and Floral design for a frontispiece

Closed3 June 2019

Price Realised

GBP 12,500

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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Fantasy; and Floral design for a frontispiece
one signed and dated 'Serge Tchekhonine 1927' (lower centre); the other signed 'S. Tchekhonine' (lower left), inscribed and dated 'Paris 1929.' (lower right)
one pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour on paper; another pencil, ink, watercolour, heightened with white, on card; one framed
12 ¾ x 9 1/8 in. (32.2 x 23 cm.); the second 11 x 9 1/8 in. (28 x 23 cm.)
(2)

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.

Specialist note

This study relates to an oil painted by Chekhonin in 1929 and sold at Christie's London on 29 November 2006, lot 178, for £114,000.