Alexander Yakovlev, Study for a mural in the Main Salon aboard the SS Île de France, 1920s

Alexander Yakovlev, Study for a mural in the Main Salon aboard the SS Île de France, 1920s

Technical Information:

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 78 by 152 cm

Signature: stamp on lower right

Provenance:

Collection of S. Morton Vose II (director of Vose Gallery, Boston from 1964), Brookline, Massachusetts, No. 97.

Additional Information:

SS Île-de-France was a French ocean liner. The ship was the first major ocean liner built after the end of World War I and the first liner to be decorated in an Art Deco style. Considered the most beautifully designed ship ever built by the CGT, she became the preferred ship of the interwar era, transporting young, wealthy and fashionable Americans to and from Europe.