Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov

Acquired from the artist by John Carr Doughty in London in 1946
Sotheby's London, Ballet Designs from the Collection of Mr and Mrs John Carr-Doughty, 4 June 1981, lot 266
A gift from John Carr Doughty to the present owner in the 1990s

London, Institut Français, Hommage á Diaghilev, pour le cinquantenaire de sa mort: peintures et dessins de la collection John Carr Doughty, 7 - 30 November 1979, no.30

There is a horizontal crease across the lower half of the sheet. There are two lighter diagonal creases running across the upper section. There are some light handling marks and surface dirt. Held in a simple frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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This is a design for one of the plates in L'Art Décoratif Théâtral Moderne, Editions La Cibelle, Paris, 1919, a folio of prints produced by Larionov and Goncharova featuring examples of their pochoir prints and lithography. The folio illustrates their interest in both stage and costume design, while emphasising their desire to combine forms of Cubism with the representation of movement. Another version of this work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.