Lot 263
  • 263

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • Study for SoirĂ©e d'Automne (Les Espagnoles)
  • inscribed in Cyrillic along the upper and lower edges; further numbered MLF54 on the reverse
  • pencil on paper
  • 40 by 26cm, 15 by 10 1/4 in.
  • Executed in the 1920s

Provenance

Lefebvre-Foinet Collection

Condition

The edges of the sheet are uneven. There are two pinholes in the lower margin and one in the centre of the upper. There is a light covering of surface dirt and the sheet has discoloured slightly in line with age. 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.