Pyotr Nikolayevich STOLPIANSKY (1872-1938) The... Lot 196

Pyotr Nikolayevich STOLPIANSKY (1872-1938) The Palace of the Academy of Sciences 1725-1925 A fine copy published by the Committee for the Popularization of Art Editions at the Academy of the History of Material Culture, 1925. Contains three autolithograph portraits by Piotr Ivanovitch Neradovski (1875-1962). Format in-12°, 38 pages with illustrations. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.