Lot 61: YAKOVLEV, MIKHAIL (1880-1942), Flowers and a Toy, signed and dated "4.IX.1912", also further signed twice in Latin and Cyrillic and dated on the reverse.

YAKOVLEV, MIKHAIL (1880-1942), Flowers and a Toy, signed and dated "4.IX.1912", also further signed twice in Latin and Cyrillic and dated on the reverse, Oil on canvas, 79.5 by 64.5 cm.
Provenance: Private collection, Moscow.
Acquired by the present owner at the Antique Salon in Moscow in the early 1990s.
Private collection, Latvia.

Authenticity certificate from the expert T. Zelyukina.

Exhibited: Possibly, X vystavka kartin soyuza russkikh khudozhnikov , Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow, 1912-1913; St Petersburg, 1913, No. 450 or 451.
Possibly, M.N. Yakovlev , Moscow Union of Soviet Artists, Moscow, February 1941, No. 13.

Literature: Possibly, exhibition catalogue, KatalogX vystavki kartin Soyuza russkikh khudozhnikov , Moscow, 1912-1913, p. 29, No. 450 or 451, listed.
Possibly, exhibition catalogue, M.N. Yakovlev. Katalog vystavki , Moscow-Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1941, p. 23, No. 13, listed under works from 1912.