Lot 553
  • 553

Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky
  • A group of ten costume designs
  • signed in Latin and variously dated 
  • gouache and pencil on paper laid on board
  • 38.5 by 25cm., 15 1/4 by 10in.

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Progress, 1944, no.22

Condition

Some of the sheets have been laid on board. The sheets have discoloured. There is surface dirt and several of the sheets have handling marks. There is loss to the lower corners of both the designs for Prince Goudal and there is some loss to the surface of the paper in the lower right corner of The Old Retired Officer from The Fair at Sorochinsky. UNFRAMED.
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Catalogue Note

The group includes four designs from The Fair at Sorochinsk, 1942; two from Mademoiselle Angot, 1943; one from Platov's Cossacks in Paris, two from Prince Goudal, 1945.