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Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2459Location: BostonDate / Time: May 15, 2009 4:00PM
Description:
Aleksandr Evgen'evich Yakovlev (Russian, 1887-1938)
Mexico
Signed, inscribed and dated "AIacovleff MEXICO 1936" l.l., dedicated and inscribed
"To Mr. Edgell in remembrance of our three years of collaboration at the Museum School and as a Friendly Souvenir...1937" on the backing,.
Watercolor with gouache on paper, 12 x 18 in. (30.4 x 45.7 cm),framed.
Condition: Subtle toning, tape to edges on the reverse.
Provenance: Descended within the family of George Harold Edgell (1887-1954). Edgell was an architectural historian and a professor of fine arts at Harvard University. In 1934 he became a curator of paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and assumed the directorship the following year.
Estimate $1,000-1,500