Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in the early 1960s

New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, 1918, no. 110, probably

C. Brinton, The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, New York, 1918, no. 110, probably
E. Lingenauber and O. Sugrobova-Roth, Boris Anisfeld 1879-1973, catalogue raisonné, Düsseldorf, 2011, no. G146

Gouache, watercolor, ink and pencil on paper mounted to board. The surface is dirty and there is some slight discoloration in line with age. There is minor craquelure in the areas of white pigment and some minor staining and scratches to the surface.
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It is likely that lots 36 and 37 are in fact two of the three Graphic Impressions listed as nos. 110, 111 and 112 in the 1918 catalogue for Christian Brinton's Boris Anisfeld Exhibition. These compositions were inspired by the writing of Edgar Allen Poe and executed in St. Petersburg in 1905.

We would like to thank Charles Chatfield-Taylor, the artist's grandson, Robert Kashey of Shepherd & Derom Galleries, and Dr. Eckart Lingenauber and Dr. Olga Sugrobova-Roth, authors of the catalogue raisonné on the artist, for providing additional information.