Serge Charchoune Russian-French, 1888-1975
                                Messe solennelle de Beethoven, quator vocal, N 1, 1954
                            
                                    oil on canvas
40 x 80 cm
                                    
                                            Copyright The Artist
                                        
                                
                                   Signed and dated (lower right side): Charchoune III 54 XI. Inscribed “Charchoune Messe solennelle de Beethoven quatuor vocal N 1/ III 54 XI /14 Cité Falguière Paris XVe” (on the...
                        
                    
                                                    Signed and dated (lower right side): Charchoune III 54 XI. 
Inscribed “Charchoune Messe solennelle de Beethoven quatuor vocal N 1/ III 54 XI /14 Cité Falguière Paris XVe” (on the reverse). NB. 14 Cité Falguière in Paris was the address of the artist’s studio in the1950s.
                    
                    
                Inscribed “Charchoune Messe solennelle de Beethoven quatuor vocal N 1/ III 54 XI /14 Cité Falguière Paris XVe” (on the reverse). NB. 14 Cité Falguière in Paris was the address of the artist’s studio in the1950s.
Provenance
Private Collection, Europe
Exhibitions
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel M. L. de Boer, March – April 1980, no. 25.
Geneva, AV Modern & Contemporary, Serge Charchoune Retrospective, November 2009 – June 2010.
Geneva, AV Modern & Contemporary, 1917 Russian Phoenixes in the West, April 28 2017 — July 29 2017.Literature
Guénégan,
Pierre, Charchoune. Catalogue raisonné
1951-1960, Carouge,
Paris: Lanwell & Leeds Ltd, no. 1954/011, p. 73
& 189.
Pointillism, exhibition catalogue,
Geneva : AV Modern & Contemporary,2010, p. 129. 
            