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Alexander Benois (1870-1960)
Nutcracker - Le Roi des Souris à cinq Têtes
signed and dated lower left Alexander Benois 1957, 18 VIII 57, and inscribed on upper edge Nutcracker, Le Roi des Souris à cinq Têtes, annotated with instructions for costume design, watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper
9¼ x 6½in. (23.5 x 16.5cm.)

Provenance
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London, from whom acquired by the present owner's father

Lot Essay

This drawing, executed in Benois' last creative year, was a design for a costume in Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker", performed in London. Productions of Petrushka were performed in Copenhagan as well as Covent Garden

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