Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
Pavel Tchelitchew
Costume Design for the Tsar in Le Coq d'Or
Auction Closed
December 1, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
Pavel Tchelitchew
1898 - 1957
Costume Design for the Tsar in Le Coq d'Or
stamped with the artist's signature on the reverse
gouache, gold paint and pencil on card
Sheet: 32.5 by 25cm, 12¾ by 9¼in.
Framed: 53 by 44cm, 21 by 17½in.
Estate of the artist
Richard Nathanson, London
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1977
Exhibition catalogue Pavel Tchelitchew 1898-1957: A Collection of Fifty-four Theatre Designs c.1919-1923, London, 1976, no.41, p.28 illustrated b/w
Tchelitchew produced the designs for Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or for the 1923 season at the Berlin State Opera. In the twenty-four-year-old artist's hands the satire of the carousing Tsar who forgets his kingdom became a bright, bawdy comedy with larger-than-life characters of exaggerated forms. In his article 'The Stage and Ballet Designs of Pavel Tchelitchev' the American novelist and friend of the artist Donald Windham aptly describes this red-nosed Tsar as 'a burlesque of over-indulgence'.