Description:
Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky (1846-1920) A signed dedicatory inscription in Russian accompanying a photograph of a Makovski ink drawing of two seated peasant women (2)
Inscribed in ink "Fotografiia s nesushchestvuiushchego risunka dlia kartiny "Gor’kaia dolia" na dobruiu pamiat’ mileishemu Aleksandru Fedorovichu Skliarevskomu ot V. E. Makovskogo". [A photograph of the nonexistent sketch of the painting "Bitter Destiny" to the good memory of Alexander Fedorovich Sklarevski from V E. Makovsky].
Signed, undated
Inscription: 2 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (6.4 x 31.3 cm.)
Photo: 6 x 5 in. (15.2 x 12.7 cm.)
Framed: 14 1/2 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.)
The artist Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky was born in Moscow and taught at the Academy of St Petersburg from 1894 to 1918. He adapted genre and figural compositions to carry social commentary. Makovsky joined the Wanderers in 1872 and exhibited in Vienna & Berlin. It is unclear how the above drawing dissappeared and if the larger painting still exists.
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, and 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.
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