Lot 100

Sorine, Saveli Abramovic
Portraits


Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Avant-propos par André Salmon. Berlin: Edition Ganymed, 1929. First edition, one of 300 copies, large folio (54.5 x 42cm), contemporary reddish-brown crushed morocco gilt by Morrell of London, all edges gilt, 35 window-mounted lithographic portraits (many in colour), printed captions to mounts, binding rubbed and scuffed
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan, Dowager Countess of Airlie (1933-2024).
Footnote
Saveli Abramovic Sorine (or Sorin) was a Russian-born artist who settled in Paris in the 1920s. The sitters in this work include Ana Pavlova and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

