Lot 544
  • 544

Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky
  • costume from a production of Prince Igor for the State Theatre of Lithuania
  • signed in Latin l.r. and dated 1934; further stamped with artist's stamp l.l. and variously inscribed
  • watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper
  • image size: 33 by 23cm., 13 by 9in.

Condition

The sheet is slightly discoloured with light handling creases and smudging to the inscriptions. The colours have faded a bit. Held in a wood and gold painted moulded plaster frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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