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Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)
Lot 112

Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)

Costume design for La Princesse Cygne: A boyar

Closed25 November 2013

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Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)
Costume design for La Princesse Cygne: A boyar
signed and dated 'Boris Bilinsky/32' (lower left), inscribed 'La Princesse Cygne' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
18.7/8 x 12.3/8 in. (48 x 31.4 cm.)
Executed in 1932

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 17 May 1994, lot 207.

Specialist note

The present work is a costume design for La Princess Cygne, a ballet based on Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Sultan, which was presented at the Théatre National de l'Opera Comique in Paris in 1932. The ballet was produced by Bronislava Nijinska with music composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for the opera by the same name.