4 June 2014 Russian Art Auctions

4 June 2014

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Book Illustration

*§ 213. DOBUZHINSKY, MSTISLAV (1875-1957)

Book Illustration, signed with initials and dated 1912.

Ink and gouache, heightened with white, on paper, 29 by 22 cm.
2,000-3,000 GBP


Provenance: A gift from the artist to Nikolai Zaretsky, artist and wartime director of the Russian Cultural Museum in Prague, c. 1945.
Thence by descent to the previous owner.
Private collection, USA.


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