Ekaterina Petrova-Trotskaya

Lev Borisovich Kazenelson, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 23, 1990, lot 371 (sold as by Ivan Petrov)
Acquired at the above sale

Gouache and watercolor on paper mounted on board. The sheet is lifting at the edges, and there are small scattered losses along the edges, especially in the lower right corner. Artist's pinholes are evident in the corners and in the upper and lower center edges. There are some minor abrasions and scratches to the picture surface, especially in the sky to the left of the red kite and towards the far right edge. In overall fair condiiton.
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The present lot is a rare example of the work of Ekaterina Petrova-Trotskaya, an avant-garde artist who completed designs for only three full-length productions before her death: Rimsky Korsakov’s The Immortal and Mozart’s Heaven and Earth and Bastien and Bastienne, which was staged at the Opera Studio of the Leningrad Conservatory in 1925. Several of Petrova-Trotskaya’s designs are held in the Bakrushin Theater Museum in Moscow.