Lot 79
  • 79

Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld
  • Palace of the Future, Set Design for The Blue Bird
  • signed in Latin and indistinctly dated 1919 l.r.
  • gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper laid on card
  • 54.5 by 75cm, 21 1/2 by 29 1/2 in.

Provenance

Parke-Bernet, New York, Designs for Costumes and Decors: Ballet, Opera, Theater, 6 May 1970, lot 57

Exhibited

Chicago, The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, 1920
New York, Lincoln Center, The Decorative Idealism of Boris Anisfeld: Designs for Ballet, Opera, and Theater, 1905-1926, 1968, no.25

Literature

E.Lingenauber and O.Sugrobova-Roth, Boris Anisfeld Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf: Edition Libertars, 2011, p.220, no.T326 illustrated

Condition

There is a repaired tear running upwards from the center of the lower edge through the white smoke. The edges are uneven and there is a layer of light surface dirt. There is a layer of varnish. Held in a simple wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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