Campement en Mongolie [Mongolian Camp], watercolor on paper 20.5 x 34 cm (8 x 13 3/8 in.) signed lower left
PROVENANCE: Collection of Joseph Kessel, France
PAYSAGE DE CAPRI. Peinture (tempera) sur carton signée en bas à droite. Exposition : Alexandre IACOVLEFF, Musée des Années 30, Boulogne Billancourt, 31 mars au 14 août 2004. Bibl. : Alexandre IACOVLEFF, Itinérances, Somogy 2004, reproduit p. 148 sous le n°93. 43 x 25,5 cm. Provenance: sale SGL ENCHERES SCHMITZ-LAURENT SAINT GERMAIN EN LAYE France 05 November 2011 lot 82.
Three mythological figures. Oil on cardboard, 160x40 cm each, signed with the artist's stamp low right
Allegorical scene
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Tempera
30x61 in (76x154 cm)
1910-15
eroticism
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Another (less detailed) variant of that painting was sold on Sotheby's London 21 April 1972 lot 1. (illustrated to the right)Due to Alexander Yakovlev's strong interest in Chinese art, he sometimes stamped his works with a Chinese stamp as is the case with this work. This seal was his Chinese name and read Ya Kou Lo Fou, with the last character meaning 'happiness'.
TEMPERA ON CANVAS, SIGNED WITH A CHOP MARK LOW RIGHT Provenance: Vose gallery Boston ; Macdougalls auction London auction 10.6.2021 lot 68
PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA Stamped with the artist's studio stamp (lower right) Gouache on paper laid down on tracing paper 27 1/8 by 41 1/4 in. 68.9 by 104.8 cm. Provenance: Acquired directly from the sister of the artist The estate of a French Nobleman; Impressionist & Modern Art, Including Russian Art New York | 04 October 2012 | N08887 lot154
Deux projets de décor pour Sémiramis, vers 1933/34 - Le tombeau de Ninos (Acte III). Gouache sur carton. 30,4 x 40 cm - Roi assyrien, étude. Gouache sur carton. 26,6 x 41,5 cm Ces deux projets font partie des décors exécutés par Iacovleff pour le «mélodrame en trois actes et deux interludes» Sémiramis de Paul Valérie/Arthur Honegger, dont la première représentation eut lieu le 11 mai 1934Signed with the artist's oriental stamp low right. Provenance Ader sale 22.06.2015 lot 54. In original arts and crafts (gothic revival) hand carved and partially gilt frame.
PAIR OF THEATRICAL COSTUMES
mixed media on paper, 10x22 inches
A kneeling nude Charcoal on paper signed low right around 1926 27x30 cm Provenance Bieberle auction Magdeburg lot 397 sale Aug 23 2021;
Self-Portrait, indistinctly signed lower left and dated 1915 (lower right on the reverse), oil on panel (double-sided – The Goatherd on the reverse – see# below) 20x15”. Exhibited: Memorial Exhibition of Alexandre Iacovleff, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, 11.04 – 29.04 1939, #9 (page 19 of the catalog). Provenance: Collection Malvina Hoffman Sotheby's. The Russian Sale, London, 22.05.2002. Lot95 I n important original XVII century European hand carved walnut frame signed C. Olivie and dated (16)79. On the reverse: The Goatherd, indistinctly signed and dated 1915 lower right.
Aphgan market scene oil/canvas, 18” H x 22” W. Signed with stamp device lower right. Provenance: Gropper Art Gallery; Macdougalls auction London auction 10.6.2021 lot67; Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.24.
Austrian art nouveau polished cherry wood frame with 6 jewelry square incrustations (the maker’s label “C. Buhlmayer, Wien” on the back)
Anna Pavlova - triptych of portraits
sold
A) In Spanish costume. Signed with stamp device lower right, charcoal and sanguine on board. Circa 1922. Label of Gallery Van Thienen, Brussel on the reverse. 68 x 35". Exhibited: Memorial Exhibition of Alexandre Iacovleff, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, 11.04 – 29.04 1939, #89 (page 23 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; illustrated in Русское Искусство magazine Moscow, 2015 v4 p 88.. In original European Gothic revival hand-carved guilt frame. SOLD
B) Nude. Sanguine on paper, stamped with artist’s Chinese stamp and studio stamp low left. 36.5x19.5 inches (93x49.5 cm) . Provenance: Sotheby's London Russian Pictures Slae 27 Nov 2018 lot 133. In original European Gothic revival hand-carved guilt frame.
C)In a training costume . Sanguine and black chalk on paper, stamped with artist’s Chinese stamp low right 20x25 inches. Exhibited: Memorial Exhibition of Alexandre Iacovleff, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, 11.04 – 29.04 1939, #89 (page 23 of the catalog) - exhibition label on the back.
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Nude boy with a stick sanguine on card laid on masonite, 79,5 x 53,5 cm signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated 1915 – pretty rare work by Yakovlev executed when he still was in Russia Provenance: Rome, Minerva Auctions Lot 0186 Nov 28 2017; MacDougalls London auction 28.11.2018 lot134
(In coauthorship with V.SHUKHAEV ) Study for plafond in Firsanov's villa, Prechistenka , Moscow. Inscribed and dated 1915 on reverse. Charcoal on paper. 18 x 41". Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.23.
