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Vas'ka
Details
Valentin Serov (1865-1911)
Vas'ka
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'V Serov/99' (lower right) and inscribed in Russian ‘Anna Karlovna Benua’ (lower centre)
tusche crayon on transfer paper, laid down onto wove paper
9½ x 12½ in. (24.1 x 31.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1899
with pencil inscription by Alexandre Benois 'V. Sérof 1899/dessin sur papier/lithographique/offert à ma/bien-aimée femme Anne Karloff/Benois' and with pencil inscription in Russian 'Chernaia rechka. Portnov's dacha/Chernaia rechka close to Raivola/Dacha/of Portnov/Vas'ka the poorly horse/I beg Serzh (Diaghilev) to make a lithograph of this drawing. Serov is opposed' (on the reverse)
Vas'ka
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'V Serov/99' (lower right) and inscribed in Russian ‘Anna Karlovna Benua’ (lower centre)
tusche crayon on transfer paper, laid down onto wove paper
9½ x 12½ in. (24.1 x 31.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1899
with pencil inscription by Alexandre Benois 'V. Sérof 1899/dessin sur papier/lithographique/offert à ma/bien-aimée femme Anne Karloff/Benois' and with pencil inscription in Russian 'Chernaia rechka. Portnov's dacha/Chernaia rechka close to Raivola/Dacha/of Portnov/Vas'ka the poorly horse/I beg Serzh (Diaghilev) to make a lithograph of this drawing. Serov is opposed' (on the reverse)
Provenance
Anna Benois (1869-1952) (inscriptions on the front and the reverse).
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Posmertnaia vystavka proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov], St Petersburg, 1914, listed p. 21, no. 126.
Exhibition catalogue, Posmertnaia vystavka proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov], Moscow, 1914, listed p. 26, no. 126.
I. Grabar', Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov - Zhizn' i tvorchestvo [Life and Works], Moscow, 1914, listed p. 288.
A letter from Alexandre Benois to Il'ia Zilberstein, Paris, 28 January 1959.
I. Grabar', Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov - Zhizn' i tvorchestvo 1865-1911 [Life and Works], Moscow, 1965, p. 224, listed p. 418.
Exhibition catalogue, Posmertnaia vystavka proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov], Moscow, 1914, listed p. 26, no. 126.
I. Grabar', Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov - Zhizn' i tvorchestvo [Life and Works], Moscow, 1914, listed p. 288.
A letter from Alexandre Benois to Il'ia Zilberstein, Paris, 28 January 1959.
I. Grabar', Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov - Zhizn' i tvorchestvo 1865-1911 [Life and Works], Moscow, 1965, p. 224, listed p. 418.
Exhibited
St Petersburg, The Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Posmertnoi vystavki proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov], 4 January 1914, no. 126.
Moscow, Bol'shaya Dmitrovka 11, Posmertnoi vystavki proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov],1914, no. 126.
Moscow, Bol'shaya Dmitrovka 11, Posmertnoi vystavki proizvedenii V. A. Serova [Posthumous exhibition of the work of V. A. Serov],1914, no. 126.
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