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Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
- Portrait of Emil Alphons Rheinhardt
- signed in Latin, titled, inscribed Capri and dated 18 août 1929 l.r.
- sanguine on paper
- 53 by 38cm, 20 3/4 by 15in.
Catalogue Note
Born in Vienna in 1889, Rheinhardt associated with the Viennese Expressionists while at university. In 1924 he moved to Italy where he wrote a biography of Eleonora Duse, his most successful book. In 1928 he relocated to the Côte d’Azur. Arrested in 1943 for his participation in the French Resistance, he was handed over to the Gestapo and died at Dachau.