Savely Abramovich (Abramswitch) Sorine (1878 - 1953) Large Scale Russian Ballerina Painting. Watercolor and pencil on paper in carved wood frame. Measures 61 x 45 inches with frame, work itself measures 51 x 35 inches. From a Westchester County, New York estate. This painting has been with the same family since it was new, first at their New York City apartment and then at their weekend home in Westchester, County NY. According to askart.com, "A Russian-born portrait painter, Savely Sorine studied with Ilya Repin at the Academy of Beaux Arts in Petrograd, where he won the Prix de Rome*. After the Russian Revolution, he went into exile and exhibited widely including at the Salon d'Automne* in Paris in 1922 and 1923, and at the 1923-24 International Exposition in Pittsburgh. In 1948, he painted a watercolor on paper portrait of Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, which hangs in Clarence House in London."

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