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Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)
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Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)

Costume design for Les contes Russes

Closed28 May 2012

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Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)
Costume design for Les contes Russes
signed 'M. Larionow.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed 1915-1916

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (label on the backboard).

Specialist note

Les Contes Russes, was choreographed by Léonide Massine for Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. It was an expanded version of an earlier ballet called Kikimora. Set to music by Anatol Liadoff, with vivid sets and costumes by Mikhail Larionov, Les Contes Russes was a popular ballet inspired by Russian folklore, comprising of a wide range of fantastical characters. The ballet premiered in Paris in 1917, giving Larionov exposure in the French capital for the first time (S. Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life, 2009, p. 329).