Live Auction 3730Russian Works of Art, Important Silver and Objects of Vertu
Mikhail Mizernyuk (dates unknown)
Lot 76PROPERTY FROM THE DESCENDANTS OF GRAND DUKE GEORGE MIKHAILOVICH

Mikhail Mizernyuk (dates unknown)

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich

Closed20 May 2015

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Mikhail Mizernyuk (dates unknown)
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'M. Mizernyuk/1916, June' (lower right)
graphite, pastel and charcoal on paper
14½ x 11 in. (37 x 28 cm.)

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich (1863-1919).
Princess Xenia Georgievna Chavchavadze (1903-1965).
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The artist Mikhail Mizernyuk, was most famous for his portrait sketches of Russian military heroes during the early twentieth century. Among these heroes are General Mikhail Aleksyeev (1857-1918), Commander Nikolai Yudenich (1862-1933) and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich (1863-1919), all of whom served in the Imperial Russian army during the First World War.