Lot 420
  • 420

Sergei Soudeikine

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Sergei Soudeikine
  • Sketch for Mis-en-scene for the Ballet "Paganini"
  • signed Soudeikine (lower right); inscribed Sergei Soudeikine Sketch for Mis-en-scene For the Ballet Paganini Music by Rachmaninoff Ballet Master Michael Fokine Paganini Helped by Hands Character of Gossip Supported by Death and Three Masks of Legends (on the reverse)
  • gouache and pastel on cardboard
  • 19 1/8 by 14 1/4 in.
  • 48.6 by 36.2 cm

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Kamyshnikoff Gallery, New York
Private collection, Springfield, Virginia

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Progress, May-September, 1944

Literature

Museum of Modern Art, Art in Prorgress, New York, 1944, p. 233