Live Auction 21607The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Day Sale
ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960)
Lot 634

ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960)

L’église du Palais à Tsarskoe Selo

Closed23 October 2022

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ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960)
L’église du Palais à Tsarskoe Selo
signed 'Alexandre Benois.' (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower right); further signed 'Alexandre Benois' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
14 1/8 x 20 5/8 in. (36 x 52.5 cm.)
(4)together with three stage designs: one for 'Diane de Poitiers' and two for 'Eugene Onegin'

Anna Benois-Tcherkesoff (1895-1984), daughter of the artist, until 1960 (inscription on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 December 1996, lot 91.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Specialist note

It has been suggested that Benois’s depiction of the chapel at Tsarskoe Selo is based on a photographic reproduction in A. Benois, Tsarskoe selo v tsarstvovanie imperatritsy Elizavety Petrovny [Tsarskoe selo in the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna], St. Petersburg, 1910, p. 55.