Anais Nin

Artist

Natashia Troubetskoia, active c. 1932

Sitter

Anaïs Nin, 21 Feb 1903 - 14 Jan 1977

Date

c. 1932

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Stretcher: 193 x 110.5cm (76 x 43 1/2")

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number

NPG.2003.3

Culture

Anaïs Nin: European\Spanish

Anaïs Nin: European\French

Provenance

(Galerie Anne Julien, Paris); purchased 2003 NPG

The vendor wrote that it was acquired in 2000 from a private collection, Paris, through Galerie Petrouchka. They had purchased it around 1983-85 from an antiques fair in Ile de Chatou, a White Russian enclave. Fanfan Berger, Gallerie Anne Julien, letter 2 May 2002 to Brandon Fortune, NPG.

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

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