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Costume design for Alexander Ostrovsky's play 'Wolves and Sheep': Apollon Viktorovich Murzavetsky
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Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927)
Costume design for Alexander Ostrovsky's play 'Wolves and Sheep': Apollon Viktorovich Murzavetsky
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'B. Kustodiev/1915' (lower right); with inscription from Alexandre Djanchieff 'vraisemblablement projet de/costume de theatre./A figuré à l'Exposition de/Bruxelles en 1928 sous le no.762/(Ancienne collection Zolotnitiki/Paris)' (on the reverse of the backboard)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper laid down on card
19 x 12 ¼ in. (48 x 31.5 cm.)
Costume design for Alexander Ostrovsky's play 'Wolves and Sheep': Apollon Viktorovich Murzavetsky
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'B. Kustodiev/1915' (lower right); with inscription from Alexandre Djanchieff 'vraisemblablement projet de/costume de theatre./A figuré à l'Exposition de/Bruxelles en 1928 sous le no.762/(Ancienne collection Zolotnitiki/Paris)' (on the reverse of the backboard)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper laid down on card
19 x 12 ¼ in. (48 x 31.5 cm.)
Provenance
M. Zolotnizki, Paris, circa 1928.
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Brussels, 1928, listed p. 75, no. 762, listed as Un chasseur.
Exhibited
Brussels, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, May-June 1928, no. 762.
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