Lot 165: §APSIT, ALEXANDER - (1880-1944) Lady in Her Boudoir

§APSIT, ALEXANDER
(1880-1944)
Lady in Her Boudoir, signed and dated 1929, further inscribed in Cyrillic "Sobstvennost" khudozhnika/Dama v buduare, a on smakuet" on the reverse.
Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, laid on cardboard, 20.5 by 16.5 cm (sheet size).
Provenance: Collection of the artist (inscription on the reverse).
Estate of the prominent Latvian publisher and bibliographer Kārlis Egle (1887‒1974), Riga.
Thence by descent.
Acquired from the family of the above by the present owner in the late 1990s.
Private collection, Latvia.

Authenticity certificate from the expert T. Zelyukina.