Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
Vera Rockline
La Terrasse de Café
Auction Closed
November 30, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Vera Rockline
1896-1934
La Terrasse de Café
signed in Latin l.r.; further stamped with the 1975 retrospective exhibition stamp and bearing the remnants of a label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
Canvas: 62 by 51cm, 24½ by 20in.
Framed: 94 by 82.5cm, 37 by 32½in.
Executed in 1922
Exhibition catalogue Exposition Rétrospective Véra Rockline: peintures, pastels, dessins 1919-1934, Paris: Galerie Barreiro, 1934, no.14 listed as Le Café
Exhibition catalogue Rétrospective Véra Rockline 1896-1934, Paris: Galerie Battais, 1975, no.10 illustrated b/w; listed under works from 1921-1925
Exhibition catalogue Rétrospective Véra Rockline 1896-1934, Paris: Galerie Battais, 1975, no.10 illustrated b/w; listed under works from 1921-1925
Vera Rockline arrived in France in 1919, first staying with her mother’s family in the Bourgogne before settling in Paris in 1921. She lived in an apartment at 12 rue de Hambourg, not far from Montmartre and the centre of the quartier russe. As Paul Morand, the Russian-born French author and witty chronicler of Parisian life in the 1920s and 1930s wrote in his Lettres de Paris, 1923 ‘The Russians are everywhere. It’s been months now, they left Berlin – too expensive, Constantinople – too Turkish, Belgrade – too melancholic, and so they are here. At night, Montmartre is entirely Russian.’