Live Auction 11996Russian Art
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Lot 25

Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)

Costume design for 'Sadko': Poissons argentés

Closed6 June 2016

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Costume design for 'Sadko': Poissons argentés
signed 'A Benois' (lower left), inscribed with production details and numbered '97' (upper left and right); further inscribed with production details and numbered '32' (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
11½ x 8 7/8 in. (29 x 22.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 December 1996, lot 183.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work is a design for a one act ballet of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko, originally conceived by Diaghilev in 1911 with costumes and décor by Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973).