Footnotes

• Provenance
  Collection of Jacques Spreiregen
  Christie's London, 19th Century, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 4 July 1980, lot 474
  Acquired from the above by His Honour Judge Bruce Griffiths, QC
  Thence by descent
  
  By repute the portrait of the wife of an art dealer, the offered lot was painted in the 1930s and belonged to the renowned collector and philanthropist Jacques Spreiregen (according to notations on the verso of the stretcher). Spreiregen's collection included several dozen paintings and graphic works by Larionov and Goncharova and in the early 1960s they were displayed at exhibitions at the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts (January 1960), at the Katia Granoff Gallery in Paris (May – June 1963) and at the Brook Street Gallery in London in December 1963. Subsequently, the portrait was sold by the Parisian commissaire-priseur, Guy Loudmer (according to a label applied to the verso of the stretcher) and then again at Christie's in 1980 where it was purchased for £350.
  
  Ранее работа принадлежала известному коллекционеру и меценату Жаку Спрейрегену (J. Spreirengen). В его собрании было несколько десятков живописных и графических работ Ларионова и Гончаровой. В начале 1960-х годов они демонстрировались на выставках в Музее изобразительных искусств Руана (январь 1960), в галерее Кати Гранофф в Париже (май – июнь 1963) и в Brook Street Gallery в Лондоне в декабре 1963 г. Впоследствии, от наследников Спрейрегена, портрет перешел в галерею парижского антиквара Ги Людмера (Guy Loudmer, 1933-2019).