Lot n° 184
Estimation :
80 - 100
EUR
Alexandre Nikolaïevitch BENOIS (1870-1960)... - Lot 184 - Magnin Wedry
Alexandre Nikolaïevitch BENOIS (1870-1960) Histoire de la peinture de tous les temps et de tous les pays Part One: Landscape Painting. Edition of 11 copies, Chipovnik, St. Petersburg, 1912. 30 color illustrations. Many illustrations (color and b/w) are presented under a protective tracing paper, illustration glued to front cover. A fine copy in thick off-white paper. Format in-4°. Tear to cover. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of Fyodor Fyodorovich Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.
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