Woman with two birds.
Ink and watercolor on paper (235 x 305 mm).
Initialed lower right. Matted and framed. Initial draft of the larger pochoir (stencil) published in 1928.Bibliography: Sotheby’s, Russian sale, New York, April 21, 2005, lot 261. Provenance:Bloomsbury New York, Sale 21.05.08 lot 174. Authenticity confirmed by Dr. Anthony Parton.

OALA16
$7000

Tete de Jeune Fille. Oil(tempera?) and gouache and watercolor on paper, signed with initials up right,  12x19 inches, c.1920-1924.  Provenance: Irwin Grossman, New York (acquired from the artist); Knoedler & Co, New York (Label on the reverse of the frame); Julian Barran Ltd. Exhibited: “Faces of Russia”, February 2007, West Palm Beach International Art Fair, USA (illustrated on page 28 of the catalog).  Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.22. COA by Dr. Anthony Parton is enclosed.

OALA18
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Still life with the background of the landscape [View with a mill]. Oil on canvas, laid on board, signed “M. L.” lower left c.1920. 19 x 12". Provenance: ABA Gallery (A. Bekerman). In original end of 18th Century carved and gilded Directoire frame with reeled frieze (provenance for the frame: Dorotheum Rahmen. Wien 10.04.2003, lot 471)

OALA19
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Draft of a curtain for "Le Soleil de Minuit" (Ballet in Diaghilev enterprise, Music by Rimskij-Korsakov from Snegourotcka). Mixed technique - oil, gouache and w/c on paper laid on cardboard, 12x14 inches, signed low left with initials m.L. and dated 4. 11(?).15. Compare: another draft of the decor published in LARIONOV par Voldemar George, La Bibliotheque des Arts, Lausanne, 1996p. 97. Authenticity confirmed by Dr. Anthony Parton. In original American arts and crafts hand carved and guilt frame by Foster brothers (label on the back) Exhibited: “A World of Stage”, April- October2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan (illustrated in the catalog).

OALA20
sold

Girls with goats in a forest; oil on canvas; signed with Latin initials low left, signed two more times (in Latin and in Cyrillic) and dated 1898 on the back. 13x18 inches. Provenance: Rosebery’s Auction, London, October 11, 2005, lot 607. In original American XIXth Century, applied ornament and gilded Whistler frame with flat panel; provenance for the frame: Framefinders, NY, May 20th 2008 lot 145 $3000}.

OALA22
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Jeunes Filles au bord de la Riviera. Signed with Russian  initials lower left Oil on canvas laid down on board.[c. 1903-1906 - Tiraspol]. 14 x 18". Provenance: Leonid Benetov, Paris; Julian Barran Ltd; Exhibited: Musee d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, 1963, catalog #75(label on the reverse) – dated 1903/1904 by Larionov himself in that catalog.  Bibliography: A retrospective exhibition of Paintings and Designs for the Theatre, Leeds-Bristol-London 1961 – two similar items ##6,7 are illustrated. In original Spanish 17th century carved, pierced and polychromed frame with cavetto sight, bound and centered laurel-leaf D-section top edge, and boldly scrolling leaf running between leaf centers and corners {provenance for the frame: Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 03.07.2007, lot 377, 2000GBP}

OALA23
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VOYAGE EN TURQUIE: A COMPLETE SET OF 32 pochoir(stencil)s IN THE ORIGINAL FOLIO

M.LARIONOV (after). Display charger with a hand-painted portrait of legendary Greek collector George Costakis created on a Greek Keramikos pottery blank 1959-1963 (according to a type of porcelain mark). 35cm in diameter (13-3/4“), 5cm deep, marked with the artist’s ML signature numbered 3. Dr. Anthony Parton wrote on March 16.07: Costakis met Larionov and Goncharova in 1956. A possibility is that Costakis obtained a design from Larionov and then had the piece painted and initialed on his behalf in Greece.

OALA24
$1500