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The Popoffs' toy elephant, Catherine the doll and Michel the teddy bear
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ZINAIDA SEREBRIAKOVA (1884-1967)
The Popoffs' toy elephant, Catherine the doll and Michel the teddy bear
indistinctly signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'To dear Berthe Efimovna/in fond memory Zinaida Serebriakova/Paris 3 August 1942' (upper left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
24 ¾ x 18 7/8 in. (62.8 x 48 cm.)
The Popoffs' toy elephant, Catherine the doll and Michel the teddy bear
indistinctly signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'To dear Berthe Efimovna/in fond memory Zinaida Serebriakova/Paris 3 August 1942' (upper left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
24 ¾ x 18 7/8 in. (62.8 x 48 cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Popoff; Christie's, London, 12-13 October 2009, lot 520.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Pavlinov, Zinaida Serebriakova. Mir ee iskusstva [The world of her art], Moscow, 2017, illustrated and listed p. 350.
Exhibited
Paris, Conservatoire Russe de Paris Serge Rachmaninoff, 1947.
Special notice
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