Alexandra Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya

Property from a Private Collection, England

Alexandra Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya

1892 - 1967

Costume Design for the Swan Princess, from The Tale of Tsar Saltan

signed with initials in Cyrillic AShsh-P (lower left); signed in Latin (lower right); inscribed in Cyrillic (along the left bottom edge); inscribed by Nikolai Evreinov (on the reverse)

gouache, ink, silver paint and pencil on paper

50 by 35 cm, 19⅝ by 13¾ in.

Framed: 57.5 by 45.5 cm, 22⅝ by 17⅞ in.

Executed in 1928/29.