Presented in similar fashion was Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Asie, one of 700 sets of c.1930, which reached £680.
Iacovleff’s collections were based on drawings made during the Citroën company’s motorised expeditions of the late 1920s and early ’30s to Central Africa and Central Asia.
Phillips, London, February 16
Buyer’s premium: 15/10 per cent
Alexandre Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique
UK: ONE of 50 coloured illustrations from Alexandre Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique of 1927, which sold for £800. One of 100 copies, it comprised a text volume in leather-backed satin covers painted with an African design and a pigskin portfolio containing the loose plates.
