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Design for the front cover of Dante Alighieri's 'Paradiso'
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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Design for the front cover of Dante Alighieri's 'Paradiso'
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Sergei Chekhonin. 1918.' (lower centre); with inscription 'Acquis de Mr Pierre Ino/Reproduit dans la monographie/de Efros et Pounine' and 'Ino' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil and ink, heightened with white, on paper
8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (21.8 x 16.8 cm.)
Design for the front cover of Dante Alighieri's 'Paradiso'
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Sergei Chekhonin. 1918.' (lower centre); with inscription 'Acquis de Mr Pierre Ino/Reproduit dans la monographie/de Efros et Pounine' and 'Ino' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil and ink, heightened with white, on paper
8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (21.8 x 16.8 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.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Efros & N. Punin, S. Chekhonin, Moscow, 1924, illustrated p. 72, listed p. 110.
A. Emdin, Mnogolikii [The multifaceted] Chekhonin, Moscow, 2003, illustrated p. 63.
A. Emdin, Mnogolikii [The multifaceted] Chekhonin, Moscow, 2003, illustrated p. 63.
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