116 Attributed to Marie Vorobieff Marevna, Russian 1892-1984


People at a table with Día de los Muertos celebrations in the background;


black ink, 16 x 11.5cm (unframed)


Note: The Día de los Muertos, or the day of the dead, is a Mexican holiday that celebrated life and death. £100 - 150*


117


Marie Vorobieff Marevna, Russian 1892-1984


‘Panagame 1907’;


blue pen on paper, inscribed in Cyrillic and dated in blue pen, 26.5 x 21cm (unframed)


116


Note: Marevna began to depict these skulls, after her relationship with Diego Rivera ended. Despite being dated ’1907’ it is likely the piece was created later as the ball point blue pen that has been used dates post the 1950s.


£80 - 120*


117


Marevna suffered from depression for which she first sought treatment in the mid-1920s at the Hospital Henri Rousselle in Paris. One of the first ‘open hospitals’, HHR offered an alternative approach for patients who needed help with psychiatric problems but did not necessarily want to be in an asylum.1 During this period, Marevna explored depictions of the hospital and its patients in her work.


118


Marie Vorobieff Marevna, Russian 1892-1984


‘Le Crime’;


blue pen over pencil, titled on the mount in blue pen, together with a similar drawing by the artist depicting a man hanging himself, blue pen, titled in Cyrillic on the mount in blue pen, 12.5 x 16cm (2) (unframed, mounted)


£200 - 400* 1Howard Padwa, ‘Social Poison- The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821-1926’, 2012 54 www.roseberys.co.uk 119


Marie Vorobieff Marevna, Russian 1892-1984


‘Une femme … avant sa mort,’ [sic.] 1919;


pencil, signed, dated, titled and inscribed indistinctively in pencil, and signed, dated and inscribed ‘Paris’ with further indistinctive inscriptions after the event in blue pen over traces of pencil, 28 x 20.5cm (unframed)


£80 - 120*


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