Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

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Description

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev
Two Book Cover Designs, a Set Design and Two Paris Scenes: 5 works
signed in Cyrillic and dated 1926 (lower right); also numbered 625 (lower right); also signed in Cyrillic and dated 1907 (lower right); also signed in Cyrillic and dated 1924 (lower right); also inscribed Paris and dated 1912 (lower left) and (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper and ink and pencil on paper heightened with white and a photograph and pencil and gouache on paper
size range: 6 3/4 by 10 in. to 13 1/2 by 11 1/4 in.
17 by 25.5 cm to 34.5 by 30 cm (5)

Provenance

Family of the artist
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

B. Kustodiev book cover and the magazine International Communism cover: Leningrad, The State Russian Museum, Posmertnaia Vystavka Proizvedenii B.M. Kustodieva, 1879-1927, December 1928, no. 891 and no. 778

Literature

The State Russian Museum, Katalog Posmertnoii Vystavki Proizvedenii B.M. Kustodieva, 1879-1927, Leningrad, 1928, no. 891, and no. 778, pp.56, 60
B. Kustodiev book cover: M. G. Atkind, Boris Kustodiev, Zhivopis', Risunok, Knizhnaia Grafica, Teatralno-Dekorativnoe Iskusstvo, Leningrad, 1983, p. 159, illustrated