1931
oil on canvas
45 x 58 cm (17 5/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
signed and dated lower right



LOT NOTES
Ekaterina Petrova-Trotskaya (1900-1932) was a Russian painter and graphic artist known for her avant-garde stage designs. She and her husband, the renowned Soviet architect Noi Trotsky, lived and worked in Leningrad. Her work was exhibited with fellow Krug artists in 1928 and 1929, but unfortunately her life was cut short by tuberculosis and she passed away in 1932. This work is particularly interesting because it was executed the year before her death, and features portraits on either side of a canvas: one of a young woman with an elongated face and stylized, voluminous hair, the other of a dark-toned older woman with green eyes.