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OCTOBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 117:
Charcoal and red chalk on paper portrait painting depicting ballet dancer Tamara Karsavina by Zinaida Serebyakova. Signed by the artist lower right. Features Christie’s and Yamato Fine Arts paper labels on the verso.Provenance: Sotheby’s. The Russian Sale. London, 14-15.12.1995. Lot 346. Exhibited: "A World of Stage, " April- October2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan (illustrated in the catalog).Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was a celebrated Russian prima ballerina who is known for her work in Imperial Russian Ballet and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and later as a founder member of The Royal Ballet and Royal Academy of Dance.Zinaida Evgenyevna Serebyakova (1884-1967) was among the first prominent Russian female painters. She came from the Benois artistic family and later joined the Mir Iskusstva movement. She first came to prominence in 1910 with the exhibition of her celebrated self-portrait Woman at the Mirror (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Dimensions: 17 x 12 in., (43 x 30.5 cm.)
Condition: Very good.
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