4 June 2014 Russian Art Auctions

4 June 2014

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Portrait of the Aritsts Daughter, Cyrilla Falk.
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* 24. FALK, ROBERT (1886-1958)

Portrait of the Aritsts Daughter, Cyrilla Falk.

Oil on canvas, 83 by 65 cm.
260,000-350,000 GBP


Executed in 1946.

Provenance: Collection of the sitter.
Private collection, Europe.
Authenticity certificate from the expert Yu. Didenko.

Exhibited: Robert Falk, The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, 1993 (label on the stretcher).

Literature: Lettres soviétiques, No. 334, 1986, colour insert between pp. 48–49. A. Shchekin-Krotova, Moi Fal’k, Moscow, HGS, 2005, p. 178, illustrated.
Yu. Didenko, compiler of Polnyi katalog zhivopisnykh proizvedenii R.R. Fal’ka// D. Sarabianov, Yu. Didenko, Zhivopis’ Roberta Fal’ka. Polnyi katalog proizvedenii, Moscow, Elizium, 2006, p. 707, No. 1048, illustrated.

For the related drawing to this work, see lot 236.

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