Lot 12: IVAN VLADIMIROVICH KOSMIN (1882-1973) Portrait of Lilia

IVAN VLADIMIROVICH KOSMIN (1882-1973) Portrait of Lilia signed in Cyrillic and titled ‘Lilia’ (middle right) oil on canvas 64 x 52.5cm (25 3/16 x 20 11/16in). "" "Elizaveta Feodorovna Lanzide (1903-1986), ‘Lilia’," "was an artist, who graduated from the Shtiglitz" Academy of Fine Arts. Her grandmother was the "cousin of the famous Russian writer, Ivan Sergeevich" Turgenev. In her diary Lilia wrote about Kosmin: This short acquaintance became a life-long friendship. He wrote this himself in the notes on postcards of my portrait that he sent me numerous times. ... I was so young and loved by my parents. I just wanted to become an artist and guarded my freedom at the time. All of this is seen in my portrait. Postcard