SOKOLOV-SKALYA, PAVEL (1899–1961) Lot n° 40

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, signed, also further signed in Cyrillic and dated "20–30 g.g." on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 147 by 109.5 cm. Provenance: Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie's South Kensington, 5 April 2006, lot 167. Important private collection, Europe. Exhibited: 60 chefs-d’œuvre de l’École russe. Le nu en peinture 1900/1970, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, 23 October 2010–30 January 2011. Venere Russa. Fascino femminile nell’arte del novecento, Fondazione Terruzzi Villa Regina Margherita, Bordighera, 9 July–28 September 2014. Neizvestnaia Rossiia, Salle d'exposition du Quai Antoine Ier, Monaco, 25 June–27 August 2015. Literature: Exhibition catalogue, 60 chefs-d’œuvre de l’École russe. Le nu en peinture 1900/1970, Cannes, Centre d’art La Malmaison, 2010, p. 41, illustrated.  Exhibition catalogue, X. Muratova, Venere Russa. Fascino femminile nell’arte del novecento, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2014, p. 78, illustrated.  X. Muratova, Neizvestnaia Rossiia. Russkoe iskusstvo pervoi poloviny XX veka, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2015, p. 253, No. 204, illustrated.