Lot 408: Portrait of an Afghan (illustrated); Three studies of female nudes (one illustrated)

Aleksandr Evgen'evich Iakovlev (1887-1938)
Portrait of an Afghan (illustrated); Three studies of female nudes (one illustrated)
the first signed, inscribed and dated '1931/A Iacovleff' (lower left); the three nudes all with artist's stamp
sanguine and black chalk, one with coloured chalks, on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.); and smaller (2)

By direct descent in the artist's family to Luke Alexander Gray.

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