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Set design for Sleeping Beauty
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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua [Benois] (1870-1960)
Set design for Sleeping Beauty
signed and inscribed 'Alexandre Benois La Belle au Bois Dormant Acte I...' (lower edge)
pencil, black ink and watercolour on paper
6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.8 cm.)
Set design for Sleeping Beauty
signed and inscribed 'Alexandre Benois La Belle au Bois Dormant Acte I...' (lower edge)
pencil, black ink and watercolour on paper
6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.8 cm.)
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Further details
This set design is for an unrealised production of Sleeping Beauty, a project for La Scale, Milan in 1953. Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky, choreography by M. Petipa.