Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
Four Designs for Turkish Shadow Puppets for Karagöz
two variously inscribed in Cyrillic; numbered MLF164-166
pencil and watercolour on tracing paper
largest: 74 by 29cm, 29 1/4 by 11 1/2 in.; smallest: 47 by 28cm, 18 1/2 by 11in.
Executed in 1924

Provenance

Lefebvre-Foinet Collection

Catalogue Note

In the early 1920s Goncharova produced puppet designs for Julie Sazonova's Théâtre des petits comédiens de bois. These designs were for the 1924 production Karagöz, a play based on traditional Turkish shadow puppets which was staged over Christmas of 1924. Lot 274 comprises four studies for the puppets themselves and lots 271-273 and 274-275 are illustrations for the programme to the performance which Goncharova also designed.