Philippe MALIAVINE

Baba with headscarf. Oil on cardboard. C.1920 Signed lower right, 32 x 20". Provenance: Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen26-May-1998, lot: 286 In original arts&crafts hand carved and guild frame by Foster Brothers (medallion on the back). Provenance: Macdougalls auction London 10 June 2021 lot 15

1. $30,000

Filipp Andreevich Malyavin was a Russian painter and draftsman. Trained in icon-painting as well as having studied under the great Russian realist painter Ilya Repin, Malyavin is unusual among the Russian artists of the time for having a peasant background.