RECENTLY SOLD WORKS

Mikhail Larionov

1881-1964

Young Jester, 1915

Watercolour on artist's board
38 x 26 cm

Costume design for Leonid Massine in Dance of the Buffoons, Soleil du Nuit

Signed M. Larionow lower right

PROVENANCE

The artist, Paris

Private collection, Arizona

Bonhams Russian Sale, London, 7 July 2010 (lot 59)

 

EXHIBITED

Œuvres de Gontcharova et de Larionow – Galerie Sauvage, Paris, 16 April – 7 May 1918 (177-194)

Œuvres de Gontcharova et de Larionow – Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, 11 – 28 June 1919 (237-247)

Artistes Russes (organized by Mir Isskustv) – Galerie La Boétie, Paris, 1921 (as Le Bouffon)

Artistes Russes (organized by Mir Isskustv) – unknown location, Paris, 1921 (as Le Bouffon)

The Goncharova – Larionov Exhibition – Kingore Gallery, New York, 1922 (as Soleil de Minuit), 97-101

Russian Line – Sotheby’s, Moscow, 12 March – 30 March 2012 (p. 8, ill.)

Acquisitions & Loans – James Butterwick Gallery, London, 30 May – 7 July 2012

Literature

The Soul of Russia – Macmillan, London, 1916 (p. 176, ill.)

Russian Works on Paper from the Collection of James Butterwick – Kit-Art, Moscow, 2011 (p. 10, ill.)

ABOUT

It is now known that Larionov gave Simon Lissim a signed copy of this original with a dedication in 1932. It can therefore be deduced that, so highly did the artist value this piece, that he used it as a type of visiting card.

OTHER ARCHIVED WORKS BY THIS ARTIST

Blue Rayonnism (The Fool)
Rayonism
Study of a Head  (Portrait of Vladimir Tatlin in Seaman’s Blouse)