In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
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- Alexandre Jacovleff 1887–1938
- Medium
- Tempera on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 502 × 279 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented anonymously 1939
- Reference
- N04991
Catalogue entry
Alexandre Jacovleff 1887-1938N04991 Nude c.1937-8
Stamped with a seal b.r.
Tempera on paper, 19 3/4 x 11 (50 x 28)
Presented anonymously 1939
Prov: Purchased by the donor from Mme A. Jacovleff, the artist's mother, 1939
The figure (naked except for black stockings and shoes) holds a carnival mask to her face and on the right is reflected in a looking-glass. It is possible that some allegory of Vanity is intended.
See also the note on N04990.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.373, reproduced p.373
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