Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov
Diaghilev with Flowers
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December 1, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov
1881 - 1964
Diaghilev with Flowers
signed in Latin, initialled and inscribed Monte Carlo t.l.
pencil on paper
Sheet: 22 by 28cm, 8¾ by 11in.
Framed: 41.5 by 47cm, 16¼ by 18½in.
Sotheby's London, Ballet and Theatre Material, 7 May 1978, lot 51
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners
Larionov first met Diaghilev in the spring of 1903, at an exhibition in Moscow. His collaboration with him began in 1915, when Diaghilev invited Goncharova and Larionov to join him in Switzerland where he was trying to reform his ballet company which had dispersed at the start of the war.
This drawing is one in a series of pencil portraits of Diaghilev that the artist executed while working for the Ballets Russes. It was produced in Monte Carlo, where, in 1923, Diaghilev's company signed a contract with the Principality of Monaco to become the official ballet of the Monte Carlo Opera.
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