LYUBOV POPOVA (1889-1924)
Two Studies of Trees
Lotto 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.