Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Lot 29

Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)

A collection of eighty-seven textile designs, some by the artist's stepson Pierre Ino

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 150,000

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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
A collection of eighty-seven textile designs, some by the artist's stepson Pierre Ino
twenty-two signed and inscribed 'Serge Tchekhonine 31, rue Greuze Paris 16e' (on the reverse)
various media including pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper or on fabric
13 ¼ x 12 3/8 in. (33.3 x 31.2 cm.); and smaller
(4)together with a letter to the artist from Yakov Polonsky (1819-1898), the artist's Soviet passport and French carte d'identité, and correspondence belonging to the artist and his family

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.