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Alexei Alexeevich Harlamoff
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description
- Alexej Alexejewitsch Harlamoff
- Auburn Haired Beauty Holding Red Roses
- signed A. Harlamoff (lower right); inscribed Z8Z 2/32/1 (on the stretcher)
- oil on canvas
- 25 3/4 by 20 in.
- 65.5 by 51 cm
Provenance
Sale: Sotheby's Park Bernet, New York, February 24, 1983, lot 114
Sale: Grogan & Company, Boston, November 14, 1991, lot 103
Sale: Gary Wallace Auctioneers, New Hampshire, circa 1992
Sale: Sotheby's London, November 23, 2000, lot 90
Sale: Grogan & Company, Boston, November 14, 1991, lot 103
Sale: Gary Wallace Auctioneers, New Hampshire, circa 1992
Sale: Sotheby's London, November 23, 2000, lot 90
Literature
Olga Sugrobova-Roth and Eckart Lingenauber, Alexei Harlamoff Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf, 2007, pp. 122, 124, illustrated
Condition
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.
This painting is not lined and has recently been cleaned and framed, and should be hung as is.
There appear to be no restorations, although there is a possibility that there may be some tiny
dots. The picture should be hung as is.
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
Catalogue Note
Alexei Harlamoff was born in the village of Dyachevka near Saratov on the Volga. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and he won both a gold medal and a scholarship in 1868. The scholarship enabled him to travel to Paris, where he studied under portrait painter Léon Bonnat, and by 1874 he was visited by Russian marine painter Alexei Bogoliubov, who reported back to Russia on the young artist's visible success.
In 1875, Harlamoff exhibited his portraits of Louis and Pauline Viardot to great acclaim, marking a turning point in his career. French writer Emile Zola found these portraits to be marvelous, and he too predicted the "debut of a great talent." Writer Ivan Turgenev was enchanted with the "little portrait-heads," so much that he openly called Harlamoff his favorite painter. By 1883, the artist had garnered international acclaim, and a writer for Novoe Vremia wrote of the extraordinary demand for the Russian's work from private collectors and art dealers in both London and Paris.
In 1875, Harlamoff exhibited his portraits of Louis and Pauline Viardot to great acclaim, marking a turning point in his career. French writer Emile Zola found these portraits to be marvelous, and he too predicted the "debut of a great talent." Writer Ivan Turgenev was enchanted with the "little portrait-heads," so much that he openly called Harlamoff his favorite painter. By 1883, the artist had garnered international acclaim, and a writer for Novoe Vremia wrote of the extraordinary demand for the Russian's work from private collectors and art dealers in both London and Paris.