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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
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Object number
NPG.2003.3
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.
