Portrait of Ekaterina Cavos-Hunter, the artist's cousin

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Zinaida Evgen'evich Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Portrait of Ekaterina Cavos-Hunter, the artist's cousin
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'To dear Katiosha/in memory from/Zina Serebriakova/25 November 1931.' (lower right)
pastel on paper
25 x 18 5/8 in. (63.5 x 47.3 cm.)

來源

Given by the artist to the sitter.
By descent in the family to the present owner.

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拍品專文

Ekaterina Cavos-Hunter, the artist's cousin, came from a family that has made a significant contribution to Russian culture.
Her Venetian great-great-grandfather, Catterino Cavos (1775-1840) came to St. Petersburg in 1798 and was placed in charge of the only public opera house, the Bolshoi Kamenny. Considered by many to be a pioneer of Russian national opera, he composed works based on byliny such as 'Il'ia Bogatyr' (1807). His son, Alberto Cattrino Cavos (1801-1863), was a renowned architect responsible for the Marinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg and the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow following its destruction by fire in 1853.
Alberto's daughter, Camille Cavos, married the architect Nikolai Benois (1813-1898), whose family fled the French Revolution in the 1790s and moved to St. Petersburg. Their son, Alexandre Benois (see lot 81) was an influential member of Mir iskusstva, and Zinaida Serebriakova's uncle.
For a portrait of Ekaterina Cavos-Hunter's son, see lot 135.