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Alexander Nikolaevich Benois

Costume Designs for Harlequin and Columbine from The Nutcracker (two works)

Auction Closed

November 30, 02:40 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Alexander Nikolaevich Benois

1870 - 1960

Costume Designs for Harlequin and Columbine from The Nutcracker (two works)


each signed and variously inscribed in Latin, one dated 1938; each further bearing Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox exhibition labels on the backing board

watercolour and ink over pencil on paper

Sheet: each 38 by 26.5cm, 14¾ by 10¼in.

Framed: 58.5 by 48.5cm, 23 by 19in.


(2)

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Alexandre Benois. Drawings from the Ballet, 2-30 May 1980, nos.40-41