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Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov(Russian, 1873-1955)The Women of Nadjis; a version
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signed with cypher (upper right)
pastel and coloured chalks on paper
51.5 x 71cm (20 1/4 x 27 15/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
With Galerie J. & A. Le Roy, frères, Brussels (according to partially torn label applied to the backboard)
LITERATURE:
Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Motte, Paris, 7 February-5 March 1964, no.13, p.10 (catalogue not traced)
Exhibition catalogue, Museé-galerie de la Seita, Paris, 26 March-May 1986, no.11, p.49 (catalogue not traced)
The offered lot would appear to be a smaller, and possibly later, version of Les Femmes de Nadjis, 1911 (see Yulia Balybina and John Bowlt, eds., Nikolai Kalmakov i labirint dekadenstva (1873-1955), Iskousstvo – XXI vek, Moscow, 2008, ill. p.24).

