Auction 2
Mar 23, 2018
(your local time)
France
Le Park Palace Avenue de la Costa 98000, Monaco
Terms of sale
View demo
The auction has ended
|
LOT 30:
Russian types.
|
|
|
Sold for: €700
Start price:
€
600
Estimated price:
€750 - €900
Auction house commission: 30%
VAT: 17% On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
|
Russian types.
Publication: [c. 1870-80].
Fourteen albumen prints (dimensions vary: from 11 x 7 cm to 9 x 5 cm), pasted on original and contemporary cards, many with photogra- pher’s creadit printed on card, 10 photographs with manuscript notes in pencil on card, some marked “1930” and “1934”.
A collection of early studio images of the Russian people by the great photographic masters of the XIX century, with most photographs BEARING NOTES IN ALEXANDER BENOIS’S HAND. The types include street sellers, a coachmen, and a priest, as well as a Circas- sian and a Kalmyk woman.
Alexander Benois (1870-1960) was an in uential artist, art historian and one of the founders of “The World of Art” (Mir Isskusstva). His designs for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev revolutionized the performace and experience of the ballet. Provenance: Alexandre Benois.
