Mount Rakaposhi
Tempera with oil on canvas
170 x 210 cm
Stamped with artist’s Chinese stamp on the reverse
PROVENANCE
Sandra Yakovlev, the artist's sister, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the parents of the present owner.
EXHIBITION
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition de peintures et dessins de l'expédition Citroën Centre-Asie,
16 May - 4 June 1933.
Washington DC, National Geographic Society, Paintings and Drawings of Asiatic Lands and Peoples by
Alexander Iacovleff, 19 March - 2 April 1935.
Possibly New York, Galleries Knoedler and Company, Alexander Iacovleff, 10 - 29 February 1936, no.8.
Possibly Charleston SC, Carolina Art Association Gibbes Art Gallery, Alexander Iacovleff, 14 April - 10 May 1936,
Hong Kong, The Space Gallery, 20th Century Russian Art, 11-12 October, 2013.
Hong Kong, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Fringe Club, 20th Century Russian Art, 5-10 November, 2014.
LITERATURE
Exhibition catalogue Exposition de peintures et dessins de l'expédition Citroën Centre-Asie, Paris, 1933, no.61.Exhibition catalogue Paintings and Drawings of Asiatic Lands and Peoples by Alexander Iacovleff,Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1935, no.13.Exhibition catalogue Alexander Iacovleff, New York, Galleries Knoedler and Company, 1936, no.8.Exhibition catalogue Alexander Iacovleff, Charleston SC, Carolina Art Association Gibbes Art Gallery, 1936, no.6.To be included in the forthcoming Alexander Yakovlev Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Caroline Haardt de La Baume.Exhibition catalogue, 20th Century Russian Art, page 86-87.