Lot 44
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ALEXEI ALEXEEVICH HARLAMOFF | Girl with Flowers

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexei Alexeevich Harlamoff
  • Girl with Flowers
  • signed in Latin l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 106 by 74cm, 41 3/4 by 29in.

Provenance

Macconnal-Mason Gallery, London

Exhibited

St Petersburg, Moscow et al., XXXI Itinerant Exhibition, 1903–1904, no.105

Literature

Illyustrirovannyi katalog XXXI vystavki tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, Moscow, 1903, p.XII, no.105 listed as Devushka s tsvetami; pl.36 illustrated b/w
G.Romanov (ed.), The Society of Itinerant Art Exhibitions, 1871-1923, An Encyclopaedia, St Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, p.277, no.3-394 listed and illustrated b/w
O.Sugrobova-Roth and E.Lingenauber, Alexei Harlamoff: Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf: Edition A.Harlamoff, 2007, p.180, no.132 listed; p.183, pl.126 illustrated

Condition

There is a wax relining. There is a layer of light surface dirt. There is a very fine pattern of craquelure and areas of paint shrinkage in places, including the flowers and the hands. Inspection under UV light reveals infilling to her face and hair and a diagonal line of retouching to her skirt. UV light reveals further retouching to the background, most notably to the upper left quadrant. Held in an ornate gilt plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

After his first appearance at the Paris Salon in 1875 where his paintings were well received by French critics, Harlamoff swiftly found commercial success. He rented a representative studio at Place Pigalle, where he would receive his mainly French and English patrons and sell his paintings directly without the need to exhibit them at the Salon. Despite residing in Paris where he found international success, Harlamoff remained connected to Russia, often visiting his homeland and participating in various exhibitions. In the early 1880s he joined the Itinerants, regularly submitting paintings to their shows. The present work was shown at the 31st Itinerant Exhibition in 1903-04.