Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Baba Daria (Le père de la rivière)

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November 25, 06:21 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Property from the Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Foundation

Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

1887 - 1938

Baba Daria (Le père de la rivière)

signed in Latin A.Iacovleff, inscribed Baba Daria / (Le père de la rivière) / Neik Mohamed / directeur des nageurs / de l'Hilmand and dated 3 juin 1931 (middle right)

pastel on paper

75 by 55.5 cm, 29½ by 21¾ in.

Framed: 103.5 by 83 cm, 40¾ by 32¾ in.

Executed on 3 June 1931.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Alexander Yakovlev catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Caroline Haardt de la Baume.

The artist's estate

Vose Galleries, Boston

Acquired from the above by Charles W. Ireland in 1939

Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Alexandre Iacovleff, peintre attaché à l’Expédition Citroën Centre-Asie, 14 May - 4 June 1933, no. 178 (titled Baba Daria, chef des bateliers de l’Helmand)

Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, Paintings and Drawings of Asiatic Lands and Peoples by Alexandre Iacovleff, 19 March - 2 April 1935, no. 36 (titled Baba Daria - Father of the River Helmand: Afghanistan)

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Water colors and Drawings by Alexandre Iacovleff, 6 January - 3 February 1938, no. 13 (titled Baba Davia)

New York, A la Vieille Russie, Alexandre Iacovleff, Paintings and Drawings, 4 May - 4 June 1993 no. 49, p. 33, illustrated b/w

Alexandre Iacovleff, "Faces and Fashions of Asia's Changeless Tribes", National Geographic Magazine, vol. LXIX, no. 1, January 1936, pl. VII, illustrated