SORINE, Savely Alexandrovich, Portraits

Avant-Propos by André Salmon. Berlin: Editions Ganymed, 1929. Folio, 20pp, 36 colour and black and white society portraits including Anna Pavlova and Queen Consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mock leather-bound with gilt lettering; some light staining and handling marks throughout No. 93 of 300 numbered copies, this copy signed by the author and dedicated by him to Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow and dated Christmas 1940.

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The Polish born painter Savely Sorine (1878-1953) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg under Ilya Repin. His pictures were exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, and throughout the USA and Moscow during the twenties. In addition to portrait painting, he illustrated the works of some of Russia's best-known writers, such as Maxim Gorki.