Lot 249
  • 249

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • costume design for a girl in the production of Jacques Offenbach's Parisian Life at the Balieff Theatre, New York, 1932
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • watercolour, gouache and pencil on cardboard
  • image size: 46 by 29.5cm., 18 by 11 1/2 in.

Condition

The sheet has discoloured. There are some creases to the lower right corner and upper edge. There are spots of foxing and surface dirt throughout. There is some abrasion to the purple areas on the skirt. Held in a gold painted plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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