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Property from the Witter-Bobrinskaya Collection, United Kingdom

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

The Tsar's Chamber: Stage Design for the Opera Tsarskaya nevesta (The Tsar's Bride)

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

1878 - 1927

The Tsar's Chamber: Stage Design for the Opera Tsarskaya nevesta (The Tsar's Bride)

signed in Cyrillic B. Kustodiev and titled "Tsarskaya nevesta" / IV akt (lower left)

watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper

45.5 by 63 cm. 17⅞ by 24¾ in.

framed: 49.5 by 67.5 cm. 19½ by 26½ in.

Executed in 1920.

Reginald Witter and Sofia Bobrinskaya (acquired in Russia before 1930)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paris, Galerie de la Scala, 101 Masterpieces, Russian Graphic Art 1790-1920, 1998, no. 60, illustrated

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