Two set designs for 'La fille mal gardée': Act I, Scene 2; and Act II, Scene 3

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Sergei Sudeikin (1882-1946)
Two set designs for 'La fille mal gardée': Act I, Scene 2; and Act II, Scene 3
the first signed 'S. Soudeikine' (lower centre); the second signed 'S. Soudeikine' (lower right).
oil on canvas
16¼ x 20½ in. (41 x? 51.5 cm.)
(2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 June 2000, lot 194.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

A leading dancer in Serge Diaghilev’s (1872-1929) Ballets Russes, Mikhail Mordkin (1880-1944) left Russia in 1924, settling in the United States where he founded the Mikhail Mordkin Ballet, which began as a high-level dance academy housed in New York’s Carnegie Hall and eventually became the foundation of the current American Ballet Theatre. The company toured performing numerous productions, often with Mordkin dancing the lead roles. A fellow émigré working in New York, Sudeikin collaborated with Mordkin on set and costume designs, including the company’s 1938 production of the comic ballet, La fille mal gardée, as delightfully depicted in the present lot.

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