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Décor for prologue in “Snow Maiden”. Watercolor and pencil
on paper, laid on cardboard, signed and dated 1918, inscribed
in Russian “Snegourotchka” low right. 9x12in. Executed for
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and described in details in
KUSTODIEV Boris Mikhailovitch. Text by V. Lebedeva.
Nauka, Moscow, 1966, p.70 (“First variant. Fluffy snow frame
from branches, stems and crones. In that frame- Berendeevka
covered by snow, on the green sky – the sun in a freezing
crown…”) Exhibited: “A World of Stage”, April- October2007,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan (illustrated in the
catalog). |
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"Easter" Watercolor on paper, 8x10
inches, inscribed with a title in
Russian, signed with Cyrillic initials
low right. |