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Modern Discoveries
Property from a Private Collection, Delaware
Alexis Gritchenko
Eight Drawings
Lot Closed
October 4, 05:23 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Delaware
Alexis Gritchenko
1883 - 1977
Eight Drawings
i. Marchands devant un mausolée
signed Gritchenko (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
12 by 10 ½ in. (30 by 27 cm.)
Executed in July 1920.
ii. View of a Distant Village
watercolor on paper
signed Gritchenko (lower right)
7 ½ by 10 ¾ in. (19 by 27 cm.)
iii. Tower Near Bay and Mountains,
watercolor and pencil on paper
signed Gritchenko (lower right); numbered 20 VIII (lower left)
12 ½ by 9 ¾ in. (31.75 by 24 cm.)
Executed in August 1920.
iv. Village Scene Near Tower
signed Gritchenko and numbered 20X (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 by 6 ¾ in. (25.4 by 17.2 cm.)
Executed in October 1920.
v. Near the Bayezid II Mosque, Istanbul
signed Gritchenko, inscribed Bayazid and numbered 20X (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
6 ½ by 9 ½ in. (16.5 by 24 cm.)
Executed in October 1920.
vi. Outside of a Mosque, Constantinople
signed Gritchenko (lower right); inscribed 20 (upper left); inscribed Fatiola (upper right); numbered 20 XI (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
7 ½ by 7 ¾ in. (19 by 19.7 cm.)
Executed in November 1920.
vii. Camels in Repose
signed Gritchenko (lower right)
pencil on paper
8 by 4 ½ in. (20.3 by 11.4 cm.)
Executed in 1919.
viii. Drawing
signed A. Gritchenko (lower right) and dated Aug. 20 (lower left)
pencil on paper
8 ¾ by 5 ¾ in. (22 by 15 cm.)
Executed in August 1920.
i. Peter H. Deitsch, New York
Marlin McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
Material Culture Philadelphia, 30 September 2016, lot 34
Acquired from the above by the present owner
ii. Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, April 26, 2015
Acquired from the above by the present owner
iii. William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Acquired from the above on December 8, 2014 by the present owner
iv. Lee Hoffman, Paris (acquired from the artist in April 1964)
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner
v. Lee Hoffman, Paris (acquired from the artist in April 1964)
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
vi. Lee Hoffman, Paris (acquired from the artist in April 1964)
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner
vii. Lee Hoffman, Paris (acquired from the artist in April 1964)
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner
viii. Material Culture Philadelphia, 30 September 2016, lot 35
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ayşenur Güler and Vita Susak, Alexis Gritchenko: The Constatinople Years, Istanbul, 2020, pp. 77, 86, 89, 259, 271, 273, 282, illustrated in color