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Lot 503: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Est: £20,000 GBP - £30,000 GBP
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomOctober 12, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Princess Aglaida Pavlovna Golitzin (1799-1882)
signed 'Socolow' (left)
pencil and watercolour, with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on pink paper
8¾ x 6¾ in. (22.2 x 17.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1825

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999. Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 'I see myself as if in a mirror...' Contemporaries of A. C. Pushkin in the Portraits of P. F. Sokolov, 2003, no. 55.

Literature

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 136 and 137, illustrated.

Notes

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Auction Details

Galerie Popoff: An Enduring Passion for Russian Art

by
Christie's
October 12, 2009, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK