25 - 28 November 2012 Russian Art Auctions
25 November 2012
215. YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887–1938)
Travel Sketchbook with approximately 50 Drawings from China and Mongolia, stamped with the artist’s Chinese stamp and dated 1918 on the first page; the drawings are variously inscribed and some stamped with the artist’s Chinese stamp.
Pencil on paper, some with watercolour, 16.5 by 13 cm.
20,000–30,000 GBP
Provenance: Private collection, France.
Literature: Alexandre Iacovleff. Itinérances, Paris, Musée des Années 30, Somogy éditions d’art, 2004, p. 120, No. 70, illustrated.
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