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Alexandre Serebriakoff
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Alexandre Serebriakoff
- The Stages of Cloth Production
- each signed in Latin l.r., two dated 1949 l.r.
- tempera on canvas
- largest: 137 by 178cm, 54 by 70in.; smallest: 136 by 99cm, 53 1/2 by 39in.
Catalogue Note
Each of the five canvases represents a stage in cloth production: sheep shearing, washing, beating and combing, weaving and finishing. They are executed in the style of the 18th century, influenced by tapestries and the Turkish works of Serebriakoff’s uncle Evgeny Lanceray. In 1949, the artist gifted these paintings to Harold Cobb, an English textile merchant, to thank him for having hosted his mother Zinaida and sister Ekaterina at his Essex estate the two previous summers.
We are grateful to Pavel Pavlinov for providing additional cataloguing information.
We are grateful to Pavel Pavlinov for providing additional cataloguing information.