Lot 70
  • 70

Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
  • Portrait of Marian Ladre
  • signed in Latin and dated 1937 l.r.
  • sanguine and pastel on paper
  • 69.5 by 56cm, 27 1/4 by 22in.

Provenance

Gropper Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Private Collection, New York

Exhibited

New York, The Grand Central Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of the work of Alexandre Iacovleff, 11 - 29 April 1939, no.74 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gropper Art Gallery, Alexandre Iacovleff: An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, May-June 1972, no.48

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Memorial Exhibition of the work of Alexandre Iacovleff, 1939, p.23, no.74 listed as Ladre (Russian Ballet)
Exhibition catalogue, Alexandre Iacovleff, An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, 1972, no.48 illustrated

Catalogue Note

The sitter was a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and is shown here in his role as a Polovtsian dancer in Prince Igor.