Three Graces. Book illustration. Pencil, ink, paper. Signed in Cyrillic and dated  97(?)6 x 4", in original art nouveau frame.

SOMOA1 $5000

Erotic ex-libris  for N. Mironov. Ink, paper. Signed in Cyrillic. [1912]. 8 x 6". Listed: K.A. Somov. Text by S. Ernst. St-Petersburg, St. Eugeni, 1918. p.107. Provenance: Collection N. M. Mironov, Moscow. In original art nouveau Austrian hand-carved frame with an ormolu mount and a maker label“ C. Buhlmayer, Wien” on the back             

SOMOA2 $25000

Erotic scene. Ink on paper. Silhouette, study for Book of Marquise ,signed lower left 8 x 6". [1918] . Provenance: Sotheby's. Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art. London,16.06.1994. Lot 61. In original art nouveau frame                                 

SOMOA3 $80000

Salome. Signed and dated 1907 low left in Cyrillic, watercolor and pencil on paper laid on cardboard. 4x9” (10x22cm). In original art nouveau frame. Provenance: V. Kurdov collection, sold by his son to the previous owner.  

SOMOA4 $50000

Marquise - miniature, book illustration. Watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1927 upper left. 2 x 2". Provenance: Raydon Gallery. In original French bronze hand-embossed  art nouveau frame. Another later version of the similar drawing  fron the Braikevitch collection is in Ashmolean Museum and published in Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, text by Larissa Salmina-Haskell, Oxford, 1989, p. 82 #119 (illustrated) 

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Kiss. Watercolor on paper, signed with initials C. S. lower left, 1904. Oval 4 x 7" (11,5x17 cm). Listed: K.A. Somov. Text by S. Ernst. St-Petersburg, St. Eugeni, 1918. p. 100. Illustrated in “Jugend”, 1905, N33; SOMOV K. Text by I. Pruzhan, Moscow, 1972, p. 54, ill.#28; SOMOV K. A. Text by Korotkina, Hudojnik Rossii SPB 2004, p.59  . Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… Russian Art From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.25.

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Portrait of a Young Lady. Signed in Cyrillic, gouache, ink, pencil on silk. c. 1910. 3 x 4". Provenance: Braikevitch Collection; Christie's.  Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art. London, 14.06.1995. lot 81. Original art nouveau frame.   

SOMOA7 $25000

Bacchanalia. Chalk, pencil and watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1927 low left.22x41”. Provenance: Bonhams, Knightsbridge, Sale 10 Jan 2006, lot 80..

Sleeping Young Woman. Watercolor, gouache on paper laid on canvas, signed and dated 1917 /lower left 7 x 9". Has gallery label “Lemaire Fils, Paris” on the backing cardboard and also an inscription Hewley 187672. Provenance: Girshman Collection (inscribed in Russian on the back “Collection V. O. Girshman, #21 and numbered one more time N43); Raydon  Gallery. Variant in GTG, Moscow reproduced in "Somov K. A." Text by E .Zhuravleva, Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1980. Ill#97.

In original Italian 19th Century tortoise shell and ivory inlaid frame with cavetto sight, leaf decoration to the freeze with mask heads to the centers and eared corners, scotia, and cushion-molded back edge.                                   

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Summer day [A Meadow with Poultry]. Oil on canvas laid on board, signed and dated 1918 lower right 8 x 12". Provenance:  Sotheby’s, Russian Pictures, Works of Art and Icons London 5-6.12.89, lot 156; ABA Art Gallery [A. Bekerman].

View of the Garden from Verandah [Martyshkino]. Oil/canvas, signed and dated 1896 lower left 11 x 14".  Compare: Christies, sale 28 Nov 2007London lots 218, 231,237. Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… Russian Art From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.25.

Provenance: William Doyle Galleries, New York 9 Sep 1992.

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Fireworks in Venice. Gouache on paper, signed low center c 1915.  13x18 inches. Provenance: Mstislav Dobujinski, Vsevolod Dobujinski (stamp on the back).

SOMOA13 Price on request