Costume design for Les contes Russes

Details

Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)
Costume design for Les contes Russes
signed 'M. Larionow.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed 1915-1916

Provenance

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (label on the backboard).

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Dance, Dance, Dance, New York, 2000, illustrated p. 20, listed p. 60.

Exhibited

New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Dance, Dance, Dance, 11 June-17 September, 2000.

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Lot Essay

Les Contes Russes, was choreographed by Léonide Massine for Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. It was an expanded version of an earlier ballet called Kikimora. Set to music by Anatol Liadoff, with vivid sets and costumes by Mikhail Larionov, Les Contes Russes was a popular ballet inspired by Russian folklore, comprising of a wide range of fantastical characters. The ballet premiered in Paris in 1917, giving Larionov exposure in the French capital for the first time (S. Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life, 2009, p. 329).

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