* LABAS, ALEXANDER (1900-1983) Girl on the Balcony, signed and dated 1963, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 100 by 140 cm. Provenance: Important private collection, Europe. Exhibited:Aleksandr Arkadievich Labas, Vystavka proizvedenii, Zhivopis, Grafika, 75 let so dnya rozhdeniya, the USSR Union of Artists, Moscow, May 1976. Literature:Exhibition catalogue,Aleksandr Arkadievich Labas, Vystavka proizvedenii, Zhivopis, Grafika, 75 let so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1976, illustrated and listed under works from 1963. The present lot is a portrait of the model Vera, sitting on the balcony of the artist’s studio in Verkhnyaya Maslovka street by the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow.