Costume design for a cavalier in 'Les Tentations de la bergère'

Details

Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Costume design for a cavalier in 'Les Tentations de la bergère'
signed and inscribed 'Amour cher/Andre [sic] Simon/bien amicalement/Juan Gris' (lower right)
pencil, charcoal, wax crayon and gouache on paper
10¾ x 7¼in. (27.4 x 18.4cm.)
Executed circa 1924

Provenance

Mme André Simon, Paris
Her sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 June 1971, lot 118
Anon sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1973, lot 29 where purchased by Parmenia Miguel Ekstrom, New York

Exhibited

New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Long Island, Diaghilev/Cunningham, April-May 1974, no.86
New York, The Cooper Hewitt Museum and San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, La Nijinska: A Dancer's Legacy, Mar 1986-Jan 1987

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The one act ballet 'Les Tentations de la bergère ou L'Amour vainqueur', with music by Monteclair (1666-1737) revised and orchestrated by Casadesus, choreography by Bronislava Nijinksa, decor and costumes by Gris, was first performed by Diaghilev's Russian Ballet at Monte Carlo on 3 January 1924.

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