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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Lot 23

Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)

Seven illustrations for Korney Chukovskii's 'Fedia-Bredia'

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 47,500

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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Seven illustrations for Korney Chukovskii's 'Fedia-Bredia'
two signed in Cyrillic 'S. Chekhonin' (lower right); four signed with Cyrillic initials 'S.Ch' (lower right) and dated 1923-1924
pencil and ink on paper; one framed
7 ½ x 10 in. (19 x 25.4 cm.); and smaller
(9)together with two copies of K. Chukovskii, Fedia-Bredia, Leningrad, 1927

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