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    LUDMILLA PITOEFF

    VIEW NOVEMBER 16, 2013
    ONLINE CATALOG

    506 East 74th Street
    New York, NY 10021Tel. +1 (212) 717-7500
    email: [email protected]

    http://www.geneshapiro.com/report.shtml?id=1295
    November 22, 2009

    Lot Number: 183

    CHANA ORLOFF (RUSSIAN 1888-1968) Bust of Ludmilla Pitoëff, cast
    after a model created in 1924 bronze height: 53 cm (20 7/8 in.),
    length: 33 cm (13 in.), width: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.) [excluding base]
    signed Ch. Orloff on back numbered '1/8,' with a Susse Fondeur Paris
    foundry mark bust mounted on a marble base

    Fig.1 Comparable photograph of Ludmilla and Georges Pitoëff

    The subject of the bust, Ludmilla Pitoëff, was a fascinating figure of
    Parisian society. Born Ludmilla Smanov in Tbilisi on December 25, 1895,
    Ludmilla married fellow actor Georges Pitoëff, a well known actor and
    producer of the French theatre, in Paris in 1915. Georges came from
    an illustrious and wealthy family of Armenian industrialists from
    Tbilisi who owned and operated "Pitoëff & Co.," a holding company
    specializing in oil exploration and refinement, as well as fish
    and caviar manufacturing. The original Pitoëff family was highly
    involved with the arts and quite influential, Georges' father being
    the director of the Tiflis Opera theatre and a major contributor to
    the rise of Feodor Chaliapin, who began his career in Tbilisi.

    In France, Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff staged numerous theatrical
    productions of Shaw, Ibsen, and especially of Russian playwrights
    such as Chekhov, whose plays they effectively made a staple of
    French theatrical repertoire. Georges would produce and direct the
    productions, and Ludmilla would star in them. She was noted for her
    powerful stage presence. The writer Jean Nepveu-Degas, nephew of artist
    Edgar Degas, described Ludmilla in the following way after seeing her
    in a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, 'le mince visage pâle,
    le regard devorant, la frele silhouette claire et la voix pathetique'
    (trans: 'The thin pale face, the ravenous gaze, the frail distinct
    silhouette and the voice full of pathos').

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    Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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