Serge FERAT (Moscou 1881- Paris 1958) Lot n° 34

The harvest Circa 1925 Oil on canvas 60 x 81 cm Signed lower right "S. Férat On the back, on the frame, old label mentioning the handwritten annotations "Ferat 44 25 B". "How does this Russian do in our house? What charm does it have? For the paths, the cows, the trees answer him; perhaps they stop him and speak to him first. I notice one thing: Serge Férat speaks with our countryside and they tell him secrets. He tames, he caresses and we caress him. Jean Cocteau In Jean Cocteau, Ferat, Editions de "Valori" Plastici, Rome, 1924 Bibliography : X. Muratova "Unknown Russia. Russian art of the first half of the twentieth century " SilvanaEditoriale, Milan, 2015, ill. 120 page 151