A fair reflection

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939)
A fair reflection
signed and dated 'C. Somov. 1930' (upper right)
watercolour on paper laid on card
4 3/8 x 3¾ in. (11.1 x 9.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This work is a later version of Somov's 'The Mirror' painted in 1927 for the collector M. V. Braikevich and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Of the composition, Somov wrote: 'I am busy now as I am working with pleasure on a miniature: an eighteenth-century lady looking into a mirror - everyone wants eighteeth-century things from me. In the mirror you can see the lady en trois quarts and the same lady in the foreground en profile perdu and a bit contre jour.' (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Somov archive, fond 136)

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