L’église du Palais à Tsarskoe Selo

Details

ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960)
L’église du Palais à Tsarskoe Selo
signed 'Alexandre Benois.' (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower right); further signed 'Alexandre Benois' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
14 1/8 x 20 5/8 in. (36 x 52.5 cm.)
(4)together with three stage designs: one for 'Diane de Poitiers' and two for 'Eugene Onegin'

Provenance

Anna Benois-Tcherkesoff (1895-1984), daughter of the artist, until 1960 (inscription on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 December 1996, lot 91.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Mostra dei Benois, Como, 1955, listed p. 40, no. 111.
M. Ghosn, Collection William Kazan. Objets de vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 63.

Exhibited

Como, Villa Communale dell’Olmo, Mostra dei Benois, May-July 1955, no. 111.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that Benois’s depiction of the chapel at Tsarskoe Selo is based on a photographic reproduction in A. Benois, Tsarskoe selo v tsarstvovanie imperatritsy Elizavety Petrovny [Tsarskoe selo in the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna], St. Petersburg, 1910, p. 55.

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