École de Paris and Russian Artists in France
6 October 2021
◎ 201. YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887–1938)
Les Autos dans le Désert, signed, inscribed "Dans le Tanezrouft" and dated 1924.
Tempera on paper, laid on cardboard, 53 by 75 cm.
25,000–40,000 GBP
Provenance: Important private collection, Europe.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert E. Yakovleva.
Exhibited: Peintre Attaché a L’Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique 2e Mission Haardt Audouin Dubreuil. Alexandre Iacovleff. Exposition de peintures et dessins, Hotel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 7–23 May 1926.
Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintre Attaché a l’Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxiéme Mission Haardt–Audouin Dubreuil. Dessins & Peintures, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire Waux Hall du Parc, Bruxelles, 26 April–10 May 1927.
Alexander Iacovleff. An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, USA, May–June 1972.
Les artistes russes hors frontière, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, 21 July–31 October 2010.
De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, 28 June – 26 October 2014.
La Russie inconnue, Art Russe de la première moitié du XXe siècle, Salle d'exposition du Quai Antoine Ier, Monaco, 25 June–27 August 2015.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Peintre Attaché a L’Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique 2e Mission Haardt Audouin Dubreuil. Alexandre Iacovleff, Paris, 1926, No. 7, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintre Attaché a l’Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxiéme Mission Haardt – Audouin Dubreuil, Brussels, 1927, p. 5, No. 9, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Iacovleff. An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, Cambridge, USA, Gropper Art Gallery, 1972, No. 5, listed as Caterpillar Cars Crossing the Dunes (Algeria).
Exhibition catalogue, A. Hofmann, V. Hofmann, G. Khatsenkov, Les artistes russes hors frontière, Paris, Edition Paradox, 2010, p. 122, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré, Cannes, Centre d’art La Malmaison, 2014, p. 39, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, X. Muratova, La Russie inconnue, Art Russe de la première moitié du XXe siècle, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2015, p. 335, No. 287, illustrated.
In late 1924 Alexander Yakovlev crossed the Tanezrouft, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, during the Central African leg of the Croisière Noire expedition, organised by André Citroën.
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