Lot 102
  • 102

Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, 1871-1955

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
  • A group of four woodcut prints on wove paper comprising: Bobby, Spring.Dolnika (1900), A View of Tivoli and Angel (both 1914)
  • all signed with artist's cypher in the plate. Bobby dated 1925; View of Tivoli titled in the plate t.r.; Spring.Dolnika inscribed and dated 1900 by Prince Argoutinsky-Dolgorouky 
  • image size: smallest 12 by 15cm., 4¾ by 6in.; largest 32.5 by 25cm., 12½ by 9¾in.

Provenance

The Collection of Prince Argoutinsky-Dolgorouky

Literature

For all four works see State Russian Museum Catalogue. A.P.Ostroumova-Lebedeva: Centenary of the Artist's birth, Leningrad, 1971, p.21, 23, 27, 28

For Spring.Dolnika, Angel and Tivoli see A.Benois and S. Ernst, Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Moscow, pp.85, 86, 88 

For a photograph of the artist's dog, Bobby see E.Poliakova, The Town of Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Moscow, 1983, plate 11

For illustrations of Tivoli see A.Petrovna, Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Moscow, 1952
A.P.Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Autobiographical Notes 1900-1916, Moscow and Leningrad, 1945, p.51
N.Sinitsin, Ostroumova-Lebedeva. Engravings, Moscow, 1964, plate 38
Ostroumova-Lebedeva Graphic Art, Moscow, 1984, p.60, No.27
E.Poliakova, The Town of Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Moscow, 1983, P.101, No.13



 

Condition

There are light handling marks to the sheets but otherwise all in good condition and ready to hang. Held in matching wooden frames and under plexiglass. Unexamined out of frame.
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