MacDougall Auctions 12-18 June 2008

12 June 2008

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Portrait of Kira Petrovna Verkhovskaya

174. SOMOV, CONSTANTINE 1869-1939

Portrait of Kira Petrovna Verkhovskaya signed and dated 26 October 1928.

Pastel on coloured paper, 35.5 by 26.5 cm.
10,000-15,000


Kira Petrovna Verkhovskaya was the daughter of Alexandra Matveevna Verkhovskaya (nee Shishkova), a family friend of the Somovs from St. Petersburg . The mother and daughter worked together in Paris as dressmakers.

"During the day and in the evening light I drew. It was a sitting with my new victim, Kira, who readily agreed to pose." A letter dated 26 October 1928 from Y.N. Podkopaeva and A.N. Sveshnikova, Konstantin Andreeich Somov. Pis'ma. Dnevniki. Suzhdenia Sovremennikov, Moscow 1979.


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