VEREYSKY, Georges Semionovitch (1886-1962) Portrait of Andrei Feodorovitch Notthafft, 1921 Pencil on paper. Signed lower left: G. Vereisky / June 9, 1921 (in Russian). 34 x 23 cm On the back, label of a framing workshop in Zurich. Provenance: Renée 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 of her made by Boris Kustodiev (now in the Russian National Museum in St. Petersburg). In 1923 she left Soviet Russia with her son Andrei for her native Switzerland. Andrey Fedorovich NOTGAFT (1908 ?). The son of the art critic F. F. Notthafft and his first wife Renee Ivanovna. After the revolution he left for Europe with his mother. He became an important businessman.
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