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Illustration to Goethe's The Sorrows of young Werther
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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua [Benois] (1870-1960)
Illustration to Goethe's The Sorrows of young Werther
inscribed 'Alexandre Benois N47. Illustration pour "Les Souffrances du jeune Werther" Expos Palais a Bruxelles (sect. russe)' (on reverse)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour on paper
11 x 16in. (28 x 42.5cm.)
Illustration to Goethe's The Sorrows of young Werther
inscribed 'Alexandre Benois N47. Illustration pour "Les Souffrances du jeune Werther" Expos Palais a Bruxelles (sect. russe)' (on reverse)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour on paper
11 x 16in. (28 x 42.5cm.)
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art Russe ancien et moderne (1928, no.172