ALEXEI ALEXEEVICH HARLAMOFF | Girl with Flowers

Macconnal-Mason Gallery, London

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

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

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.