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Lot 165
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Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev
  • A Group of Eleven lithographs for Russische Erotik
  • all signed in Latin and dated 20 in the plate
  • lithographs
  • image size of each: 28 by 35.5cm, 11 by 14in.

Provenance

Oleg Zinger, Paris
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Possibly exhibited Paris, Galerie Povolotski, 15 December 1921

Condition

The sheets are slightly discoloured. One is also slightly undulated. Held in matching black painted wooden frames and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

This group of lithographs forms part of the Russische Erotik portfolio published in Munich in 1921. Grigoriev's original drawings from this series were exhibited at Galerie Povolotski in Paris later that year.

Please see lot 152 for a short biography of Oleg Zinger.