Lot 57: Maksimilian Voloshin (1878-1932) Three Crimean landscapes pencil and watercolour on paper; one framed 7 7/8 x 11 ¼ in. (28.5 x 19.8 cm.); and smaller (3)

Maksimilian Voloshin (1878-1932)
Three Crimean landscapes
the first signed in Cyrillic 'Maksimilian Voloshin' (lower left) and indistinctly dated '19...6' (lower right); with inscription 'Maximilian Voloschin 1877-1932/(Sothe)by's Londres' (on the reverse); the second signed in Cyrillic and dated '1921/Maksimilian Voloshin' (lower right); with inscription 'Maximilian Voloschin 1877-1932/Provenance Sotheby's Londres' (on the reverse); the third signed in Cyrillic 'Maksimilian Voloshin' (lower right), inscribed in Russian 'To Anna Karlovna Benua with my deepest respect/and love./Maksimilian Voloshin/St P[etersburg] 1924' (lower left margin) dated '1923/X23' (lower left) and with inscriptions 'Aquarelle du poète Maximilian Voloshine/en Crimée.' (lower right margin); and 'Le beau poète/Max. Volochin/VII 1932/en Crimée/M. Voloshin/Paysage de Crimée/Signée et datée 19-10-1923/Porte le mention/A Anna Karlovna Benois/(epouse du peintre) avec sa/ profonde estime et sa grande/amitie St Petersburg 1924/cf. Catalogue de l’exposition/de la collection Notgaft/Leningrad 1962' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour on paper; one framed
7 7/8 x 11 ¼ in. (28.5 x 19.8 cm.); and smaller
(3)

Mountainous landscape in blue:
A gift from the artist to Anna Benois (1869-1952), the wife of Alexandre Benois (1870-1960) (inscription on the obverse).
Mountainous landscape in yellow; and Cloudy landscape:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1982, lot 315.
All:
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.