Lot 390: Lac Tai-Ho

Aleksandr Evgen'evich Iakovlev (1887-1938)
Lac Tai-Ho
pencil on card
26¼ x 20 7/8 in. (66.7 x 53 cm.)

THE PROPERTY OF A FRENCH COLLECTOR


'After two years of traveling in Italy and Spain, where he was particularly drawn to the works of Mantegna and El Greco, he returned briefly to St. Petersburg, only to set out again for the Far East on a traveling scholarship from the art academy. He was in Beijing when the Russian Revolution broke out [...]. In 1918, Uncle Sasha, while in Beijing, devoted himself to the study of Chinese theater and began to sign his portraits in Chinese characters that read "Ya-Ko-Lo-Fu", a pun of "Iaco Le Fou".

ibid. , p. 28