Olga Alexandrovna (b. Peterhof near St. Petersburg 1882, d. Toronto 1960, Grand Duchess of Russia)
Colourful flowers in the windowsill at her Danish residence Knudsminde in Ballerup. Signed Olga. Oil on canvas. 32×47 cm.
Provenance: The Danish seller's stepmother's parents, Arne Hammer and his Russian-born wife, Tatiana Konstantinova Hammer, née Martinson. Arne Hammer worked for the Great Northern Telegraph Company and travelled often to Russia in the 1920s. In Irkutsk, he met Tatiana, whom he married and moved to Denmark. Tatiana Hammer belonged to the Russian circles in Copenhagen and received the painting directly from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrova.
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Russian art, 29 November 2019