Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Fara Ali, Afdem
signed, dated and inscribed 'Fara Ali/Afdem/A. Iacovleff' (lower left)
pastel on paper
29½ x 21¾ in.(75 x 55.5 cm.)
來源
Mr Hans Heysen, Hahndorf.
The above's sale: Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 18 June 1970, lot 3.
Christie's, Melbourne, 19-20 April 2005, lot 132.
展覽
Sydney, National Gallery of New South Wales, Special Exhibition of Contemporary British and Continental Artists, 19 October - 31 December 1938, no. 91.
In 1928, Alexandre Iacovleff returned to Africa after the Croisière noire with Henri de Rothschild. They went together in Ethiopia where Iacovleff made the present composition in Afdem, by the Rift valley.