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Lot Essay
On 16th January 1933 Somov wrote to his sister Anna Mikhailova (1873-1945):
‘…I finished a pastel study of the Daphnis’ [Boris Snejkovsky] head - overall, we had only 13 sessions. The study was a success, he came out very similar… The complexion of the previous study was too much of a terracotta colour… this new portrait is smaller - only a head and no hands. A lock of hair falls on the forehead, and he wears a beautiful bright pink shirt with an open collar…’ (quoted from Iu. N. Podkopaeva & A. N. Sveshnikova, Konstantin Andreevich Somov. Pis'ma, Dnevniki. Suzhdeniia sovremennikov,Moscow, 1979, p. 398).
We are grateful to Elena Yakovleva, Doctor of Art History, Senior Researcher of the Russian Institute of Art History, St Petersburg for providing this catalogue note.
‘…I finished a pastel study of the Daphnis’ [Boris Snejkovsky] head - overall, we had only 13 sessions. The study was a success, he came out very similar… The complexion of the previous study was too much of a terracotta colour… this new portrait is smaller - only a head and no hands. A lock of hair falls on the forehead, and he wears a beautiful bright pink shirt with an open collar…’ (quoted from Iu. N. Podkopaeva & A. N. Sveshnikova, Konstantin Andreevich Somov. Pis'ma, Dnevniki. Suzhdeniia sovremennikov,Moscow, 1979, p. 398).
We are grateful to Elena Yakovleva, Doctor of Art History, Senior Researcher of the Russian Institute of Art History, St Petersburg for providing this catalogue note.