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Kay Nielsen

The Dream of the Marquise Drawing

1918

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The Dream of the Marquise, 1918.

  • Kay Nielsen (Danish, 1886-1957).
  • Signed and dated by the artist in pencil on lower right.
  • Ink, graphite and gouache on paper, heightened with gold.
  • Presented mounted, framed and glazed.


This illustration depicts costume designs for Michel and Vera Fokine’s production of the ballet La Reve de la Marquise, performed in New York and Stockholm in 1921. Kay Nielsen was brought up around the theatre—both his parents were actors—and he produced costume and set designs for a number of ballets in Denmark and America in the 1910s and early '20s, mostly in collaboration with the director Johannes Poulsen. 

Provenance

Exhibited Brooklyn Museum, 14 April to 10 May 1925.

Index of American Watercolor Exhibitions, 1900-1945, p. 238.

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Lightly toned.

Chips, loss and wear to frame.

Dimensions

Height: 9.88 inches / 25.1 cm
Width: 14.06 inches / 35.7 cm

Above dimensions refer to unframed drawing.


Framed Height: 20.03 inches / 50.9 cm

Framed Width: 22.95 inches / 58.3cm.

Materials

Paper

Decorative Style

Modern Style, Scandinavian Modern Style

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