VEREYSKY, Georges Semionovitch (1886-1962) Portrait of Renee Ivanovna Notgaft, 1921 Pencil, watercolor, white highlights; beige paper with watermark. Signed lower left: G. Vereisky / 1921- (in Russian) 33.5 x 25 cm Moisture stain along lower margin (unaffected image) Provenance: Renee Notthafft, first wife of F. F. Notthafft, art historian, collector, researcher at the Hermitage Museum, and founder of the Akvilon publishing house. She is known thanks to the portrait made of her by Boris Koustodiev (now kept in the Russian National Museum in St. Petersburg). In 1923, she left Soviet Russia with her son Andrei for her native Switzerland.
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