Lot 30: KUZMA SERGEIEVICH PETROV-VODKIN (1878-1939) Mother and child signed with

KUZMA SERGEIEVICH PETROV-VODKIN (1878-1939) Mother and child signed with Cyrillic initials ‘KPV’ and dated ‘1927’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 52.3 x 38.4cm (20 9/16 x 15 1/8in).

Provenance I. Ezrakh collection (label on verso) Acquired from the above by the current owner in 1980s Exhibited Possibly, Leningrad, Exhibition of works by Petrov Vodkin, Union of Leningrad Artists of the USSR, 1947 (according to the label on verso) Literature Possibly, K. S.Petrov-Vodkin, Leningrad, LSSH, 1947, p.84 38