Lot 65: ERNA PLACHTE (GERMAN, 1893-1986) TWO STREET

ERNA PLACHTE (GERMAN, 1893-1986) TWO STREET SCENES, MOSCOW signed and dated 1931 watercolour and pastel the first: 42.5cm x 32cm; 16 1/2in 12 1/2in; the second: 25cm x 32cm; 9 3/4in x 12 1/2in Plachte was a German born artist and illustrator who was an official painter at the League of Nations in the early 1930s. She eventually settled in Oxford teaching at the Ruskin School of Art, where a residency was named after her. These rare views of Moscow at the height of the USSR were painted on a trip the artist made there in the early 1930s.