STELLETSKY Dimitri Semenovitch (1875-1947). - Lot 147

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STELLETSKY Dimitri Semenovitch (1875-1947). - Lot 147
STELLETSKY Dimitri Semenovitch (1875-1947). Winter festivities. Two watercolors, pastel and graphite, on paper, preserved under glass in modern natural wood frames. Small tears, but overall good condition. Sight: H.: 51 cm - W.: 101.5 cm. Frame: H.: 60.5 cm - W.: 111 cm. Provenance : gift from the artist in the 1920s to Countess Alexandra Illarionovna Schouvaloff, née Woronzov-Dachkov (1869-1957), then kept by descent. Sotheby's sale, November 24, 2014, lot 14. Countess Schouvaloff was the eldest daughter of Count Illarion Woronzov-Dachkov (1837-1916), Minister of the Imperial Court under Emperor Alexander III. Her father's high position at court and his close friendship with the emperor enabled the countess to become lady-in-waiting to Empress Maria Feodorovna, a position she held until her marriage to Count Paul Shuvalov in 1890. After the Revolution, she settled in France, where she was President of the Red Cross. Biography: Dimitri Semenovitch Stelletsky was a painter, sculptor and theater designer. He studied with Hugo Salemann and Vladimir Beklemisheff at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. 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, founded the L'Icône company and decorated several churches of the Russian emigration to France. The pair of landscapes presented here were given to the Countess by Stelletsky in the 1920s. Living in France from 1914, Stelletsky befriended many Russian émigrés, including Countess Schouvaloff, to whom he sent letters and illustrated cards. The courtly, bucolic motifs of the landscapes presented here are reminiscent of fresco cycles in Italian palaces, in particular Benozzo Gozzoli's famous Procession of the Magi in Florence's Palazzo Medici Riccardi, which Stelletsky studied first-hand in 1907 with his friend and fellow student Boris Kustodiev.
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