About This Artwork
Comte Serge Jastrebzoff Ferat
French, born Russia, 1881-1958
The Green Circus Ridersn.d.
Gouache, with watercolor and graphite on cream watercolor paper
538 x 403 mm
Signed recto, lower right corner, in red gouache: "S. Ferat"
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1926.1145
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, "Sixth International Watercolor Exhibition," May 3–30, 1926, n. p., cat. 395.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 98, cat. 982.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Children's Museum, "Scenes from the Circus," November 30–December 12, 1932.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, February 16–March 9, 1945.
Illinois Federation of Arts, October 5, 1952–April 26, 1953.
The University of Chicago, November. 11, 1953–May 11, 1954.
Publication History
The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888–1950 (Madison, Conn., 1990), p. 319.
Ownership History
Gertrude Keeley. Given by Robert Allerton (1873–1964), Chicago, to the AIC, 1926.