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    22 June 1999

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    • Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938
    Lot 33

    Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)

    Koba antilopes (Am Dafok), Chad
    Antilopes Koba (Am-Dafok), Tchad

    Price realised

    NLG 21,064

    Estimate

    NLG 15,000 - NLG 20,000

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    Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
    Koba antilopes (Am Dafok), Chad
    Antilopes Koba (Am-Dafok), Tchad
    signed, dated and inscribed lower right Am-Dafok 1925 A. Iacovleff, and inscribed with title on the reverse
    gouache on cardboard
    50 x 65 cm

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    Literature and exhibited

    Exhibited

    Probably no.54, Paris, Htel Jean Charpentier, Alexandre Iacovleff, dessins et peintures, May 1926.


    Lot Essay

    Amongst the many scientific missions entrusted to the Croisire Noire expedition, was that of bringing stuffed animals back for the Paris Musum d'Histoire Naturelle. In January 1925, the members of the convoy, the trackers, and numerous porters, camped at Am Dafok. While their comrades were hunting, Alexandre Iacovleff sketched the animals as they passed by, and Lon Poirier went on shooting his film. As for the taxidermist, Dr. Eugne Bergoni, he prepared the numerous carcasses, which attracted vultures and wild cats.

    Georges-Marie Haardt, leader of the expedition, and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil, second leader, are in the middle and right of the photograph of the camp at Am-Dafok.

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