Self-portrait as a young man with skull

Details

Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)
Self-portrait as a young man with skull
signed with initials, signed in Persian and dated '18 AO 09,/Orlovsky' (upper left)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
6 x 7 in. (15.2 x 17.8 cm.)

Provenance

Aleksander and Walentyna Janta-Polczynski, New York.
Acquired from the above in 1971.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Orlowski (1777-1832): A Selection of his Work from the Collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska Dietrich and the late Albert George Dietrich, Hanover, 1973, p. 7, no. 10.
C. Czaplinski, Polish Art Collections in America, Warsaw, 2005, illustrated p. 141.

Exhibited

Hanover, The Hopkins Centre Art Galleries Dartmouth College, Alexander Orlowski (1777-1832): A Selection of his Work from the Collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska Dietrich and the late Albert George Dietrich, 1973, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

Orlovsky often wrote his surname, not in Russian or in French but with Persian letters (Baron N. Wrangel, 'Romanticism in painting during Alexander's epoch and the Great Patriotic War of 1912', Starye Gody [The old days], June-September 1908, p. 393.

For further information on this artist and the collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska please see lot 31.

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