Property from a London Collection MIKHAIL LARIONOV (RUSSIAN 1881-1964) Portrait de Diaghilev signed with initials in Cyrillic M.L. (lower left) pencil 40.5 x 25.5 cm (16 x 10 1/8 in) Executed in 1907 PROVENANCE: Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva Mikhail Larionov was the lifelong partner to fellow leader of the Russian avant-garde, Natalia Goncharova. The present lot is a portrait of the Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872 – 1929), founder of the Ballet Russes. The Ballet Russes revolutionised ballet and had a huge influence on 20th-century art, theatre, fashion and interior design.