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Kostia Terechkovitch

Born : 1902Died : 1978Documented citizenships : France

Kostia Terechkovitch’s work spans several genres: dancers, landscapes, portraits, equestrian scenes and family subjects, alongside his work as an illustrator through lithography. He was born in the outskirts of Moscow in 1902 and died in Monaco in 1978; he was of Russian origin and became French through naturalisation in 1943. After completing his baccalauréat, he prepared for art studies in the studio of the Moscow painter Constantin Youon. He arrived in Paris in 1920, at the end of a journey that took him notably through Ukraine, the Caucasus, Persia and Constantinople. In the capital, he attended the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he drew; Michel Larionov bought some of his sheets to encourage him. In 1921, the writer and art critic Serge Romoff granted him a monthly allowance so that he could paint. Noticed by the art dealer Charles-Auguste Girard at the 1925 Salon d’automne, he signed a contract with him; the gallery organised his first solo exhibition in 1927. In 1933, he designed the sets and costumes for a performance by the Ballets russes in Monte-Carlo. From 1934, he took part in the exhibitions of the Groupe de l’Amitié, alongside Jeanne Besnard-Fortin, Serge Charchoune and Emmanuel Mané-Katz. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilised the following year; in 1951, he was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur.

His subjects include dancers and landscapes: the banks of the Marne, beaches, countryside and villages. In his mature years, he painted mainly his family, particularly his daughters France and Nathalie. His passion for sport also informs equestrian scenes and depictions of racehorses; in Saut de la rivière, he shows his own horse, Antheos, at the head of the field. He also painted portraits of artists, including Ilia Zdanevitch in 1930, Chaïm Soutine in 1933, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse in 1941, and Marc Chagall in 1961. In 1949, he created twelve original lithographs for Les petites filles modèles, poems by René Laporte published by Éditions Wolfsberg in Zurich.

This profile brings together identity references for Kostia Terechkovitch and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

29 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Genève Enchères, Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, Lempertz, Zofingen, Piguet, Schuler. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.

Works recorded at auction

Photograph : Piguet · Enlarge image ↗

Piguet

Vue de Paris,

Oil on panel

Original catalogue wording

Vue de Paris,
huile sur panneau

Catalogue period : 2026-09-08 — 2026-09-23

Published result : 750 CHF

Fees not specified in the available data

Estimate : CHF 1500–2500

Kostia Terechkovitch

Works recorded at auction

Vue de Paris,

Femme à la mandoline,

"Plage d'Etretat"

Femmes au jardin

Portrait eines Walliser Mädchens

Roskoff Castle

Jeune femme aux fleurs

Woman and Child by a Window

Portrait de la fille de l'artiste.

Interior Scene

View of Villeneuve

En souvenir des princes de sang, 1962

"Mont St. Michel".

The painter's house

Vue de l'Atelier à Roquebrune

Sommerliche Terrassenpartie bei Riex.

Fillette au bord de mer

Fillette au pied des falaises

Nathalie in Finland

Portrait de la fille de l′artiste.

Bouquet of flowers.

Uferpartie mit Segelbooten.

"Le mariage".

"Femme et enfant".

Sitzende Frau mit Blumenstrauss.

Familienszene in einem sommerlichen Garten.

Vue de Villeneuve,

Portrait de Nathalie à 18 ans

Vue de Villeneuve,

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