Costume Design for Snegurochka - Act 1

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Sergei Vasil'evich Chekhonin (1878-1936)
Costume Design for Snegurochka - Act 1
signed and inscribed 'Serge Tchekhonine Paris' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of white on paper
123/8 x 81/8in. (31.5 x 20.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

A design for the unrealised production of the ballet Snegurochka by A.K. Glazunov from the play by A.N. Ostrovskii, to have been produced by the Russian Ballet of Vera Nemchinova in Paris in 1930, staged by Bronislava Nijinska with designs by Chekhonin.

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