YAKOVLEV, ALEXANDER (1887-1938) Penelope , signed and dated 1929. Tempera on canvas, 210.5 by 170.5 cm. Provenance: Collection of the renowned publisher and husband of the artist’s niece, Alexander Liberman, Paris. Acquired from the above by the antique dealer Roger Prigent, USA, c. 1980. Acquired from the above by a previous owner. Anonymous sale; Russian Art, Part II, Sotheby’s New York, 17 April 2007, lot 337. Private collection, UK. Exhibited: Alexandre Iacovleff, Galerie de la Renaissance, Paris, 1929. Alexandre Iacovleff, Galeries d’Art Kodak, Brussels, 30 November–9 December 1929, No. 1. Exposition Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, Galerie Vendôme, Paris, 23 November–18 December 1965, No. 46. Literature: For illustrations of the present lot in the French press of 1929, see the Yakovlev family album, RGALI, Moscow, fund 2477, listing 1, file 16. Possibly, exhibition catalogue, Alexandre Iacovleff, Paris, Galerie de la Renaissance, 1929. Exhibition catalogue, Alexandre Iacovleff, Brussels, Galeries d’Art Kodak, 1929, No. 1, listed. Exhibition catalogue, Exposition Alexandre Iacovleff. Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, Paris, Galerie Vendôme, 1965, No. 46, pp. 12, 18, 20, illustrated. Alexandre Iacovleff. Itinérances, Paris, Somogy éditions d’Art, 2004, pp. 108, 113, illustrated, incorrectly dated 1927.