1. Fixing her Hair (Ruby Elzy in “Porgy and Bess”1935), oil on board 70.8 x 56.5 CM(28x22 inch) c 1935 Provenance: Sothebys Sale:L11112 lot 0259 Inscribed Ruby on the back.
Ruby Elzy (February 20, 1908 – June 26, 1943), was a pioneer African American operatic soprano who created the role of Serena in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess and performed in it more than eight hundred times. Her big aria in the opera was My Man's Gone Now, Serena's lament after her husband is murdered in a crap game.





2. Self-portrait. Oil/canvas, inscribed in Russian " myself #7" lower right and dated 1946 at the reverse. 28 x 28". Also inscribed on the stretcher #7, self-portrait 1945-46. First variant of the painting "My life" - Sudeikin S.Y. Text by D. Kogan. Moscow, Iskusstvo 1974 p.169, ill.120. Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… Russian Art From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on p.20. In original American beginning of XX century gothic revival architectural style hand-carved frame with pillars and finials gilded


3. Portrait Of Lawrence Mansfield Higgins (one of Sudeikin’s lovers), 1932 Signed Soudekine (ll); inscribed with title , signed and dated 1932 on the stretcher Oil on canvas 15 x 15 inches Provenance: Doyle, New York, sale 06/07/2006, lot 52S


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