Lot 517
Lot 517
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957)

Costume Design for 'Coppelia': The Astronomer Doll

Price Realised USD 1,638
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USD 1,800 - USD 2,200
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Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957)

Costume Design for 'Coppelia': The Astronomer Doll

Price Realised USD 1,638
Price Realised USD 1,638
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Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957)
Costume Design for 'Coppelia': The Astronomer Doll
signed with monogram and dated '1956' (lower right), inscribed with title (upper edge); further signed and inscribed with title and production details (on the reverse)
pencil, ink, charcoal, gouache and watercolor, heightened with gold and silver, on paper
1258 x 912 in. (32 x 24.1 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 December 1996, lot 193.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Diaghilev and Russian Stage Designs. A Loan Exhibition of Stage and Costume Designs from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. N Lobanov-Rostovsky, Washington, D.C., 1972-1974, illustrated p. 23, p. 22, no. 28.
J. E. Bowlt et al., Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design. The Catalogue Raisonné of the Collection of Nina and Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Suffolk, 2013, illustrated, p. 154, no. 451.
Exhibited
Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Russian Theatrical Decorative Art, 1988, no. 139.
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