Lot 25: BRODSKY, ISAAK (1884-1939) Portrait of a Lady

BRODSKY, ISAAK (1884-1939) Portrait of a Lady , signed and dated 1916. Oil on canvas, 86.5 by 106.5 cm.
Provenance: Collection of E.M. Samuelson (later E.M. Gofman), at least until the 1940s.
Anonymous sale; Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, Sotheby's London, 15 December 1994, lot 81.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Important private collection, Europe.

Exhibited: I.I Brodsky. 1904-XXV-1929, Leningrad, 1929.
Yubileinaya vystavka proizvedenii zasluzhennogo deyatelya iskusstv I.I. Brodskogo. 30 let khudozhestvennoi deyatel'nosti. 1904-1934, Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, 1934-1935.
Zasluzhennyi deyatel' iskusstv I.I. Brodsky. 1884-1939, The State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1941.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, I.I Brodsky. 1904-XXV-1929. Katalog yubileinoi vystavki, Leningrad, Yubileinyi komitet, 1929, p. 12, No. 81, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Yubileinaya vystavka proizvedenii zasluzhennogo deyatelya iskusstv I.I. Brodskogo. 30 let khudozhestvennoi deyatel'nosti. 1904-1934, Moscow, Vsekokhudozhnik, 1934, p. 12, No. 75, listed.
I. Brodsky, Moi tvorcheskii put' , Leningrad-Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1940, pl. 59, illustrated as Portret E.S.
Exhibition catalogue, Zasluzhennyi deyatel' iskusstv I.I. Brodsky. 1884-1939. Katalog posmertnoi vystavki, Leningrad, The State Russian Museum, 1941, No. 141, listed.
Iosif Brodsky, Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky. Stat'yi, pis'ma, dokumenty, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1956, p. 182, listed with incorrect measurements under works from 1916.