Sergei Soudeikine

Doris Dickinson Dinsmore (acquired directly from the artist)
Jack Miller, 1979
Private Collection, New York

Oil on unlined canvas. There is a small bump and associated loss - likely from something caught between the stretcher and the canvas - at extreme upper center. There are a few very small areas of loss at the center of the right edge and another to the left of the figure's right elbow. There are also some small spots of white paint scattered along the lower edge of the work. Under UV some of the pigments are still active but there are no apparent inpaints visible.
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Doris Dickinson Dinsmore was a patron of the arts, and owned many works by Sergei Soudeikine. She donated much of her collection, including a number of theater and set designs by the artist, to the Harvard College Library in 1977.