Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)

Portrait of Pierre Ino (1909-1989)

Details

Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Portrait of Pierre Ino (1909-1989)
signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘Sergei Chekhonin/1926’ (lower right); with inscription from Alexandre Djanchieff ‘Pierre Ino (fils adoptif du peintre)/1973’ (on the reverse) and ‘Pierre Ino fut adopté par S Tchékonine. Il était le fils/de Mme Tchékonine et né/d’un premiere mariage./Portrait de Pierre Ino’ (on the reverse of the backboard)
pastel on card
19 1/8 x 15 in. (48.7 x 38.2 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired directly from Pierre Ino (1909-1989), stepson of the artist, by Alexandre Djanchieff in Paris in the late 1980s.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Probably, Exhibition catalogue, Exposition Serge Tchekhonine. Portraits et Miniatures, Paris, 1929, listed p. [5], no. 6.

Exhibited

Probably, Paris, La Renaissance, Exposition Serge Tchekhonine. Portraits et Miniatures, 5-19 June 1929, no. 6.

Présenté par

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Descriptif du lot

Sergei Chekhonin emigrated to France in 1928 where he met and married Lydia Vytchegjanine (1889-1960), a fellow Russian émigré and mother of the young Pierre, who became the artist Pierre Ino, the subject of the present work. For portraits of Vytchegjanine and another portrait of Ino see lot 18.

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