Alexandre Benois | Original costume design for Le Pavillon, 1909

Alesandro Benois

Costume Le Pavillon d'Armide, 1909

360 x 253mm. (frame 595 x 455mm.), watercolour, ink and pencil, SIGNED lower left dated upper left 1909, mounted, framed and glazed

Original illustration, costume design for a male courtier in Le Pavillon d'Armide. The work was first presented in 1907 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and later presented by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, 1909.

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From the collection of the late Colin White