Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York

Pavel Tchelitchew

Costume Design for the Tsar in Le Coq d'Or

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December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

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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

London, The Alpine Club, Pavel Tchelitchew 1898-1957: A Collection of Fifty-four Theatre Designs c.1919-1923, 13-22 December 1976, no.41

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'.