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Design for the front cover of Alexandre Benois's 'The History of Painting'
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Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Design for the front cover of Alexandre Benois's 'The History of Painting'
signed with Cyrillic initials 'S. Ch.' (lower centre)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
11 7/8 x 8 ½ in. (30.3 x 21.5 cm.)
Design for the front cover of Alexandre Benois's 'The History of Painting'
signed with Cyrillic initials 'S. Ch.' (lower centre)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
11 7/8 x 8 ½ in. (30.3 x 21.5 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
Probably, A. Efros & N. Punin, S. Chekhonin, Moscow, 1924, listed p. 108.
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Marina Nekliudova