Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
Three Set Designs for The Fair at Sorochyntsi
one signed in Latin l.r. and numbered MLF134; the others numbered MLF178 and MLF193
pencil on paper
each: 56.5 by 78cm, 22 1/4 by 30 3/4 in.

Provenance

Lefebvre-Foinet Collection

Catalogue Note

The Fair at Sorochyntsi is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky based on the eponymous tale by Nikolai Gogol. It was a popular opera and Goncharova is known to have worked on four separate productions between the mid-1920s and 1940. The many different stagings mean it is often difficult to attribute designs to a specific production and present difficulties with dating, particularly as she would often thriftily recycle previous unrealised designs.