Description:
Alexander Petrovich Sokolov
(1829-1913)
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
Signed in Cyrillic A. P. Sokolov, l.r. and
dated December 1904
Pencil on paper
Image size: 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (20 x 16.8
cm.)
Framed 12 x 9 3/4 in. 30.4 x 24.8
cm.).
Provenance: From the
private collection of Alexander Sklarevski (image 4).
Alexander Fedorovich Sklarevski
(1882-1963) was a concert pianist who fled
Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution,
travelling East by train across Siberia to
Vladivostok. As a graduate in 1908, he
received the first of many gold medals from
the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory of
Music. He was later elected Director of the
Third Imperial Conservatory of Saratov. For
decades Sklarevski performed recitals around
the world to great acclaim. In 1923, he joined
the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in
Baltimore where he remained a professor for
30 years.
The Artist
Russian portraitist and
genre painter Alexander Petrovich Sokolov
(1829-1913) studied at the Academy
of Arts in St. Petersburg and specialized in
portraits of women. His work appears
in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery and in the
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
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