Details
Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Two designs for journals 'Plamia'; and 'Jar-Ptitsa'; and An Ex Libris
the first signed 'Serge Tchekhonine' (lower left), inscribed in Russian and Latin '.../this drawing is also intended for a book/after its reproduction I ask for the original to be send to the address: Vas.[ilevsky] Island av.[enue] 43 ap.[artment], 3. to Chekhonin/"Flame"/Serge Tchekhonine/Petersburg/V. I. 12 av. 43. ap, 3' (on the reverse) and numbered 'N42' (on the reverse of the mount); the second signed with Cyrillic initials 'S Ch' (lower centre); the third signed with Cyrillic initials 'S. Ch.' (lower left and right)
the first ink, heightened with white, on paper laid on card; the second ink on card; the third ink and gouache on card; the third ink on card; one framed
3 7/8 x 8 ¾ in. (9.8 x 22.1 cm.); and smaller
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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
Design for 'Jar-Ptitsa'
Zhar-Ptitsa [Fire-bird], Paris-Berlin, 1921, 1, illustrated p. 35.
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