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Alexandre IACOVLEFF (1887-1938) Portrait of Ashkhen Manucharovna Melikova Sanguine and black pencil on paper. Faded Cyrillic inscriptions: "..." / ... (To my dear /friend Ashkhen/ in remembrance/ ...) lower right. Slight edge loss, paper insolate. 45.5 x 35.5 cm Ashkhen Manucharovna Melikova was a friend of Georgian princess Salomé Nikolaevna Andronikova, a Silver Age muse of remarkable beauty and an inspiration to many poets and artists, including Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Savely Sorine, Boris Grigorieff, Vassili Choukhaieff... A close friend of the two in Paris, Alexandre Iacovleff produced an oil composition in the early 1920s entitled Three Women, the third woman at the top of the stairs presumably being Vera Choukhaieff. The painting has yet to be located. Here, in this preparatory sanguine for the oil painting Trois femmes, we are drawn in by Ashkhen's deep gaze and beautiful face. Once deciphered, the Cyrillic inscriptions "A ma chère amie Ashkhen en souvenir ..." (To my dear friend Ashkhen in memory ...), testify to Alexander Iacovleff's complicity with his model. Boris Grigorieff also painted a strikingly modern portrait of Ashkhen, Femme aux yeux noirs, in Paris in 1921. A certificate of authenticity from Mme Caroline Haardt de La Baume, an expert in the work of Alexandre Iacovleff, will be given to the buyer. This lot will be included in the Alexandre Iacovleff catalog raisonné currently in preparation.

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Alexandre IACOVLEFF (1887-1938) Portrait of Ashkhen Manucharovna Melikova Sanguine and black pencil on paper. Faded Cyrillic inscriptions: "..." / ... (To my dear /friend Ashkhen/ in remembrance/ ...) lower right. Slight edge loss, paper insolate. 45.5 x 35.5 cm Ashkhen Manucharovna Melikova was a friend of Georgian princess Salomé Nikolaevna Andronikova, a Silver Age muse of remarkable beauty and an inspiration to many poets and artists, including Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Savely Sorine, Boris Grigorieff, Vassili Choukhaieff... A close friend of the two in Paris, Alexandre Iacovleff produced an oil composition in the early 1920s entitled Three Women, the third woman at the top of the stairs presumably being Vera Choukhaieff. The painting has yet to be located. Here, in this preparatory sanguine for the oil painting Trois femmes, we are drawn in by Ashkhen's deep gaze and beautiful face. Once deciphered, the Cyrillic inscriptions "A ma chère amie Ashkhen en souvenir ..." (To my dear friend Ashkhen in memory ...), testify to Alexander Iacovleff's complicity with his model. Boris Grigorieff also painted a strikingly modern portrait of Ashkhen, Femme aux yeux noirs, in Paris in 1921. A certificate of authenticity from Mme Caroline Haardt de La Baume, an expert in the work of Alexandre Iacovleff, will be given to the buyer. This lot will be included in the Alexandre Iacovleff catalog raisonné currently in preparation.

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