Two costume designs for Tsarevich Alexis: Father Yakov and Man in a nightcap

細節

Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Two costume designs for Tsarevich Alexis: Father Yakov and Man in a nightcap
the first inscribed in Russian with title (upper right)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper laid down on board
the first 13¼ x 9¾ in. (33.5 x 24.8 cm.); the second 13 1/8 x 9½ in. (33.2 x 24.3 cm.) (2)

來源

Acquired from Popoff & Cie. by the present owner in Paris in 1995.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

榮譽呈獻

Alexis de Tiesenhausen

atiesenhausen@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2605

拍品專文

Alexandre Benois designed the costumes and sets for the 1920 production of Tsarevich Alexei. Based on Dmitry Merezhkovsky's 1905 novel Petr and Aleksei, which recounts the fraught relationship between Peter the Great and his son whom he had put to death for alleged treason in 1717, the production made its debut on the 25 March 1920 at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St Petersburg.