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Alexei Alexeevich Harlamoff
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description
- Alexej Alexejewitsch Harlamoff
- The Little Seamstress, 1910
- signed A. Harlamoff and dated 1910 (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 29 7/8 by 21 1/2 in.
- 76 by 54.6 cm
Provenance
Sale: Sotheby's New York, October 29, 1981, lot 157, illustrated
(acquired directly from this sale)
(acquired directly from this sale)
Catalogue Note
Harlamoff's oeuvre encompasses a classical repertoire of themes including that of young apprentices at work. Harlamoff shed light on the labor of young seamstresses, and he often returned to the subject throughout his career. Sometimes he depicted seamstresses together in small groups, and other times he painted just one girl, deeply engrossed in her work. As was typical in his later oeuvre, Harlamoff painted this composition with a freer brushstroke, most visible in the decorative elements.
The rural interior suggests the location where Harlamoff probably painted this work. In the late 1860s and then regularly after 1872, the Russian artistic community left Paris to summer at Veules-Les-Roses. This charming seaside resort near Normandy lured both painters and writers, and it even served as inspiration for the masterpieces of certain Russian landscape painters, including Vasily Polenov. Even Ilya Repin, famous for his portraiture and history painting, created some marvelous landscapes there. Harlamoff loved these surroundings, and he even purchased a house with a large studio at Veules-Les-Roses.
The kitchen table in the present composition also appears in several other Harlamoff paintings, including one of a group of seamstresses (see: Sotheby's, New York, 24 February 1983, lot 87).
The rural interior suggests the location where Harlamoff probably painted this work. In the late 1860s and then regularly after 1872, the Russian artistic community left Paris to summer at Veules-Les-Roses. This charming seaside resort near Normandy lured both painters and writers, and it even served as inspiration for the masterpieces of certain Russian landscape painters, including Vasily Polenov. Even Ilya Repin, famous for his portraiture and history painting, created some marvelous landscapes there. Harlamoff loved these surroundings, and he even purchased a house with a large studio at Veules-Les-Roses.
The kitchen table in the present composition also appears in several other Harlamoff paintings, including one of a group of seamstresses (see: Sotheby's, New York, 24 February 1983, lot 87).