IVAN IAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN (1876-1942)

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IVAN IAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN (1876-1942)

Costume design for Boris Godunov: Tsar

Signed in russian and dated lower right I.Bilibin 1908, watercolour and ink on paper laid on board -33.5 x 24 cm
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Collection of Prince Argutinskii Dolgorukov
Collection of Serge Lifar

Lot Essay

Boris Godunov, Opera in four acts, was created by Modest Mussorgsky. It was produced by Sergei Diaghilev for the first Saison Russe at the Théatre National de l'Opéra in Paris on May 19, 1908, with set designs by Aleksandr Benois and Aleksandr Golovin and costume designs by Ivan Bilibin.

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