Lot 101: Adolphe Josefovich Charlemagne , 1826-1901 the road to Chernomor watercolour and gouache on paper

signed in Cyrillic l.r. and inscribed in Cyrillic t.r. watercolour and gouache on paper

image size: 17 by 21cm., 6 3/4 by 8 1/4 in.

A gift of from the artist to Vladimir Eduardovich Napravnik
Thence by decent

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, BELGIUM
The offered lot comes from a unique album of drawings, watercolours, musical quotations, letters, collected by the son of Eduard Frantsevich Napravnik (1839-1916) . As chief conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre from the 1868 until his death in 1916, Eduard Napravnik occupied one of the most important roles in Russian musical life. He led the world premieres of many of the late nineteenth century operas which today constitute the basic Russian repertory including Rimsky-Korsakov's Night Before Christmas and Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades.