Lot 262
  • 262

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • Study for SoirĂ©e d'Automne
  • numbered MLF055 l.r.
  • pencil on tracing paper
  • 58 by 29cm, 23 by 11 1/2 in.
  • Executed in the 1920s

Provenance

Lefebvre-Foinet Collection

Condition

The sheet has been laid on Japanese paper. The left edge is even, the other three are uneven. There are a couple of repaired tears and punctures in the margins of the work. There is some minor scattered foxing in places and the sheet has discoloured slightly. There is a light covering of surface dirt. On the reverse at the top edge are the remnants of two pieces of hinging tape. Held in a simple white frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The present lot is a study for the large-scale oil of the same title now in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery and published in Natalia Goncharova. Between East and West, Moscow, 2013, p.217.