Pastel. Signed lower left, artist's studio stamp verso. 1929.

65 x 50 cm. Framed & behind glass : 81.5 x 67 cm (gold stucco frame); 6.6 kg.

Reclining, naked young woman, leaning on a cushion, in the bright light.

Probably Sinaida Yevgenevna Serebryakova, then: Russian-French painter, studied at private art schools in St. Petersburg, also a pupil of Repin and Bras, later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Also Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, Zénaïde Lanceray-Serebriakoff or Zynaida Evgenievna Serebryakova. All lots with a limit (starting price) of at least €1,500 will be checked against the Art Loss Register database.

Literature : Saur.