Portrait of Velikij Knias (His Higness) Kirill Vladimirovich. Oil/panel, signed low right, Bears labels with the name of the sitter, inventory of Her Majesty Maria Fedorovna, SPB frame shop Abrosimov. 10x7 inches. [illustrated in
https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/savely-sorine-1878-1953/] ; http://artforspb.ru/
Portrait of ballerina Nathalie Krassovska (inscription on the back), signed and dated 1934 lower right, pencil, watercolor on paper laid on canvas. 18 x 15". Exhibited Wildenstein gallery NYC Nov - Dec 1934 - illustrated in the catalog. Provenance: MacDougal 19th & 20th Century Russian Art Sale lot 230, London, Thursday, November 27, 2008 In classicism Italian end of XIXth century mahogany polished frame with ormolu mounts. [illustrated in
https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/savely-sorine-1878-1953/ ;
Similar portrait sold for $70000 Christies London 28.11.2016
Portrait of Tamara Karsavina. Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1915 low right. Pastel and crayon on board, 22,5x17”. Provenance: Collection Mrs. W. K. du Pont, Wilmington; Estate of Mary Eitingon; Doyle, New York, 2.19.03, lot 75. Exhibited: RUSSIA, Exhibition of Russian art and Sculpture, Realism to Surrealism, Catalog by Christian Brinton, the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1932, #43; “Faces of Russia”, February 2007, West Palm Beach International Art Fair, USA (illustrated on page 28 of the catalog). Compare: (another later variant): SORIN Savely Exhibition of Portraits, Galleries of M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 1923 #9, Exhibited: “A World of Stage”, April- October2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan (illustrated in the catalog). Illustrated in: THE BALLETS RUSSES AND THE ART OF DESIGN Editors: Alston Purvis, Peter Rand, Anna Winestein, The Monacelli Press, Random House, 2009, p. 22. illustrated In American, 20th Century, pressed wood and gilded Stanford-White style original frame made by Newcomb-Macklin; illustrated in http://artforspb.ru/
"Still life of artist's desk with self-portrait" Oil on artist board, signed, 60x69 cm (23 1/2 x 27 in). Exhibited: Russian Painting and Sculpture. Brooklyn Museum 1923 #246. In original European (English?)art-nouveau hand-carved and patinated frame, beginning of XXth century.
PORTRAITS BY
SAVELIJ SORIN
36 color signed lithographs - 21¾ by 16¾in
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Berlin: Editions Ganymed, 1929. Folio, 20pp, 36 color and black and white society portraits including Anna Pavlova and Queen Consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, etc 1/300
