Lot 95
  • 95

MIKHAIL FEDOROVICH LARIONOV | Garden in Tiraspol

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov
  • Garden in Tiraspol
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r.; further indistinctly signed with initials on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 58 by 73cm, 22 3/4 by 28 3/4 in.

Provenance

Estate of Leonardo Benatov (1899-1972)
Raoul Laurent, Paris
Julian Barran, London

Condition

The work is double-sided. The canvas is not stretched and is buckling in places, notably along the lower edge. There are some very minor lines of craquelure in places on the front of canvas. UV light reveals a small area of retouching to the roof above the figure on the left and another area to a trunk at the centre of the lower edge and some scattered spots of retouching to the sky. Held in a modern frame with glass over the reverse. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The painting is double-sided.

Leonardo Benatov, born Levon Bunatyan, was a prominent figure in Russian émigré circles in Paris and was friendly with many of his fellow artists who had settled there, including Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov. Benatov had received his artistic training at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at Vkhutemas under Petr Konchalovsky. A portrait of Benatov painted by his teacher in 1920 was sold at Sotheby's London in November 2007.