Lot 143
  • 143

Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov
  • Portrait of Ekaterina Ivanovna Kogan in a Red Cardigan
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 40cm, 19 1/2 by 40 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1923

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the sitter, the artist's sister-in-law
Thence by descent to the granddaughter of the above
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Exhibited

Moscow, State Historical Museum, Vystavka kartin, organizovannaya Rossiskim Obshchestvom Krasnogo Kresta, 1924, no.83

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Vystavka kartin, organizovannaya Rossiskim Obshchestvom Krasnogo Kresta, Moscow, 1924, no.83 listed and titled Portret zhenski
I.Bolotina, Ilya Mashkov, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1977, p. 318, no.300 illustrated in b/w

Catalogue Note

In the 1920s Mashkov spent a lot of time with the family of his wife Maria Ivanovna Danilova. The majority of his portraits of Maria and her relatives were executed in 1922-23. The sitter of the present portrait is Ekaterina, one of Maria’s sisters, who was married to the famous collector Semyon Mironavich Kogan.