12 October 2015 Russian Art Auctions

12 October 2015

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Girl on the Balcony

* 47. LABAS, ALEXANDER (1900-1983)

Girl on the Balcony, signed and dated 1963, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated on the reverse.

Oil on canvas, 100 by 140 cm.
80,000-120,000 GBP


Provenance: Important private collection, Europe.

Exhibited: Aleksandr Arkadievich Labas, Vystavka proizvedenii, Zhivopis, Grafika, 75 let so dnya rozhdeniya, the USSR Union of Artists, Moscow, May 1976.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Aleksandr Arkadievich Labas, Vystavka proizvedenii, Zhivopis, Grafika, 75 let so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1976, illustrated and listed under works from 1963.

The present lot is a portrait of the model Vera, sitting on the balcony of the artist’s studio in Verkhnyaya Maslovka street by the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow.


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