Lot 47
47
Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)
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Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)

Costume design for Ruslan and Ludmila: Ludmila

Details
Boris Bilinsky (1910-1948)
Costume design for Ruslan and Ludmila: Ludmila
signed 'B. Bilinsky' (lower left), inscribed 'Ludmila' (lower right)
gouache, heightened with gold, on paper mounted on board
19 x 12½ in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.)
Provenance
Parmenia Migel Ekstrom.
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Boris Bilinsky - Decors and Costumes, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 1975, listed p. 6, illustrated p. 5, no. 10.
Exhibition catalogue, Art & Entertainment: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Red Grooms, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, 2007, listed p. 33, illustrated p. 15.
Exhibited
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Boris Bilinsky - Decors and
Costumes, 29 May-20 June 1975, no. 10.
New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Art & Entertainment: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Red Grooms, 18 November 2007-3 February 2008.
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Lot Essay

The present work is a costume design for the opera Ruslan and Ludmila by M. I. Glinka, executed for the revival staged by the Opéra Russe de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1930. The opera was produced by Nicolas Evreinov with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and costumes and sets by Bilinsky. The opera, Glinka's second and last, was the first to be founded on one of the works of Pushkin.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by René Clémenti-Bilinsky, grandson of the artist.

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