LYUBOV POPOVA (1889-1924)
Two Studies of Trees

Lot 36
4 0006 000
annotated with numbers ‘161’ and ‘159’ (upper right) pencil on paper 34 x 21 cm Executed in 1912. Provenance: Pavel Sergeevich Popov, Moscow (brother of the artist) George Costakis, Moscow and Athens (acquired form the above) Private Collection, Stockholm (gift from the above) Private European Collection Literature: Angelica Zander Rudenstine, The George Costakis Collection Russian Avant-Garde Art,Harry N. Abrams, New York 1981,pp 350-351, nos. 742-751 (drawings from the same sketch book which were retained by George Costakis for his own collection) The drawings of tree studies relate to a painting of the same date. These 2 sheets come from a Sketch book formerly owned by George Costakis.