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Aphrodite - sculpture in Versailles Park. Gouache, watercolor on paper. Signed and dated on the reverse 25.03.936.15 x 10" Provenance: Russian Works of Art, Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY 1’05’1969 lot 283 |
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A Tapestry for "Diane Poitiers", 1934. Gouache on paper. 13x10" Signed, dated
and inscribed on the reverse "pour Ida" . Provenance: By descent from the artist, Sotheby's Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art. London, 15.06.1995, lot 121. |
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The Bath of the Marquise, Peinture a l’essence on prepared canvas, 11x7 inches (27x18 cm). Provenance: collection of professor A. Abramian (Erevan), Julian Barran Gallery. Executed circa 1906 this freely painted composition is a study for one of Benois early masterpieces The Bath of the Marquise in the Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (see: I. Rostovtseva, The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad 1975, pl.49) Bibliography: COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR ABRAMIAN, Erevan, Sovetakan Groh, 1989, item#27, p286. In original Italian XVIII century hand carved and guild tabernacle frame with two putties underneath the gothic style frieze with rosettes. |
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Village scene,
oil/board, signed with Cyrillic initials and inscribed
"Rome", 16x8 inches |
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View of the park fountain (either in one of Saint-Petersburg Country Palaces – most probable as it is signed with Russian initials – or in Versailles); watercolor and gouache on paper, laid on cardboard, signed low right with Cyrillic initials, 30x30 inches. Provenance: Christies, South Kensington, sale 14. 03.2007, lot 227. |
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Landscape. Gouache, watercolor on paper. Inscribed “Cavos s/m”, signed
"Alexander Benois” and dated 13.05.40(?).13x 16". |
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Interior of A. Benois apartment in St. Petersburg. Gouache on paper, signed lower left Executed circa 1895. 11 x 12". Provenance: Barran Julian Ltd. An Exhibition of Designs for the Russian Ballet. 28.11.-22.12.1994. London (illustrated no.1). |
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The Imperial Theater under Floodwater in St. Petersburg: an illustration for Pushkin's Poem "the Bronze Horseman". [1903].Gouache on paper, signed lower left 10 x13". Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.25.
Provenance: M. Dobujinsky, who received it as a gift from the artist. Sotheby’s, London, 16.06.94, lot 1. First published in vol XI “Mir Iskusstva, 1904, then in A. Pushkin "Mednyi Vsadnik" with illustrations by A. Benois, SPB, 1905 – listed in “ BENOIS Alexander”, text by S. Ernst. Petersburg, Komitet Populiarizatsii hudojestvennyh izdanij, pp 78 |
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| Выдающийся русский
живописец, график, художник театра, историк
искусства и художественный критик. Родился в
Петербурге. В 1887 – 1888 – вольнослушатель АХ. В
1890 – 1894 учился на юридическом факультете
Петербургского университета и одновременно занимался
живописью под руководством брата Альберта
Николаевича, был одним из организаторов (1890-е)
объединения «Мир искусства» и его идейным
руководителем. Участвовал в выставках ОРА (с1891), «Мир
искусства» (с 1899) и др. Во время заграничных
путешествий (1890 – 1910-е) по Германии, Италии и
Франции исполнил множество пейзажей. Как художник
театра начал работать с 1900, как режиссер – с 1907.
В 1918 – 1926 был хранителем в ГЭ и членом Комиссии
по охране памятников искусства и старины. Автор ряда
трудов по истории искусства и многочисленных
критических статей. С 1926 постоянно жил в Париже.
Работы хранятся в ГТГ, ГРМ и многих музеях мира.
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