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Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description
- Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova
- Portrait of Hélène Benois
- signed in Latin, inscribed Paris and with a dedication and dated le 20 nov 1939 l.l.
- pastel, sanguine and charcoal on paper
- 64 by 48cm, 25 1/4 by 19 in.
Provenance
Gift from the artist to the sitter
Thence by descent
Thence by descent
Catalogue Note
Hélène, or Elena, Benois was the daughter of Alexander Benois and Serebriakova's first cousin. She too inherited the family gift for painting and studied under Alexander Yakovlev in Russia before emigrating to Paris after the Revolution, like her cousin, where she worked as an artist and set designer.