STELLETSKY Dimitri Semenovitch (1875-1947) Gallant conversation on the grass. Watercolor, gouache highlights and graphite on paper signed lower right in Latin letters in graphite by the artist "D. Stelletsky" preceded by an autograph dedication: "À madame Colette Menard souvenir d'un artiste reconnaissant et dévoué, 17 février 1925, Cannes", preserved under glass in its original carved and gilded wood frame decorated with a frieze of oak leaves. Good condition, accidents and missing frame. Sight: H.: 23.5 cm - W.: 65.5 cm. Frame: H.: 29.5 cm - W.: 71.5 cm. Provenance: former private collection, then sold at MC Fine Arts, January 10, 2014 in Monaco under n°218. Biography: Dimitri Semenovitch Stelletsky is a painter, sculptor and theater designer. He studied with Hugo Salemann and Vladimir Beklemisheff at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1896 to 1903. He became a member of Le Monde de l'art in 1911 and of the Union of Russian Painters, where he exhibited from 1911 to 1913. He emigrated to Paris after the First World War. He founded the L'Icône company and decorated several churches of the Russian émigré community in France.