Ape appeal
This sheet of studies of a monkey in red chalk on paper by the St Petersburg-born artist Alexander Jacovleff (1887-1938) will be offered in Il Ponte’s sale of 19th century paintings and sculpture in Milan on November 21.
The 2ft 11 x 2ft (88.5 x 60cm) work, which is signed, dated 1915 and inscribed Roma lower right, i…