Lot 399: Pastel drawing "Head of a Child", Pisemsky, Russia, c 1890

Pastel drawing "Head of a Child", by Russian artist A.A. Pisemsky (1859-1913) Amazing pastel and charcoal drawing "Head of a Child", by Russian artist Aleksey Alexandrovitch Pisemsky (1859-1913) Medium: colored pastel, carton, covered with glass for protection Size of the carton: 41 x 31 cm = 16 x 13 inches; Size of the frame: 57 x 46 cm = 22.5 x 18 inches; Weight with a frame and glass: 6 lb. = 3 kg; Condition: perfect, pastel was kept framed, under glass; Highest price for Pisemskys oil on canvas "Autumn landscape with a lake" was sold on Christie's, London, in 2007 for $258,788 USD Biography The son of a landowner, Alexei Pisemsky grew up in the densely wooded province of Kostroma, north-east of Yaroslavl. His uncle was a famous writer, Alexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky, regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev in his time. Alexei Alexandrovich began his studies at secondary school in the regional town of Kostroma, but at the insistence of his patron he left before finishing the course in order to enroll at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg (1878-1890). He studied landscape painting under Mikhail Klodt and Yuli Klever and exhibited with the Itinerants from 1887-1889. He is best known for his oils, which were immensely popular among collectors including Pavel Tretyakov and the Imperial family, but he was also a stalwart member of the Society of Russian Watercolourists and celebrated illustrator. Remarkably for the period, he traveled to North Africa in the 1890s.
Condition: perfect, pastel was kept framed, under glass;
Low Estimate: 10000;
High Estimate: 20000;
Original: Yes;
Medium: Pastel, Charcoal;
Circa: 1890;