Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)

Portrait of Pierre Nikolaevich Shildknecht (1897-1966)

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967)
Portrait of Pierre Nikolaevich Shildknecht (1897-1966)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Z. Serebriakova/Paris, le 10 juillet/1955' (lower right)
pastel on paper
21¼ x 16½ in. (54 x 42 cm.)

Provenance

Gift from the artist to the grandfather of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Born in St Petersburg, Pierre Shildknecht was one of many Russians who arrived in Paris in the 1920s and worked in the thriving film industry as a set-designer. In 1927 he worked with Alexandre Benois on Abel Gance's Napoléon.

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