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Lot 359
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Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev
  • Stage Design for The Little Cockerel Golden-Comb
  • inscribed B.Kustodiev, titled Petushek - zolotoi grebeshek / postanovka kukol'nogo teatra, dated 1927 and bearing 1932 exhibition label on the backing board
  • watercolour on cardboard
  • 16.5 by 30cm, 6 1/2 by 11 3/4 in.

Exhibited

Leningrad, The State Russian Museum; Moscow, The Pushkin Fine Art Museum, Posmertnaya vystavka proizvedenii Borisa Mikhailovicha Kustodieva, 1928-1929, no.401
Leningrad, Academy of Arts, Vystavka teatralno-dekoratsionnogo iskusstva 1917-1927, 1932, no.24

Literature

M.Etkind, Boris Kustodiev, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, p.326, no.1890 listed

Condition

The board is in good order. There are some minor tears along the right edge and a very small piece missing. There is a small tear to the left of the missing piece. There are some scattered flecks of paint loss, primarily in the lower right quadrant. Held in a decorative wooden surround and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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