Lot 77: * FEDOROVSKY, FEDOR (1883-1955) Costume Designs for the I. Dzerzhinsky Opera “Quiet Flows the Don”

Name: * FEDOROVSKY, FEDOR (1883-1955) Costume Designs for the I. Dzerzhinsky Opera “Quiet Flows the Don”
Brand: MacDougall's
SKU: 68f45feaae

Est: £6,000 GBP - £9,000 GBP

MacDougall'sLondon, United KingdomOctober 12, 2015

Item Overview

Description

* FEDOROVSKY, FEDOR (1883-1955) Costume Designs for the I. Dzerzhinsky Opera “Quiet Flows the Don”, variously inscribed in Cyrillic and numbered “N 2”. Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper, 61.5 by 93 cm.
The present lot is from the series of set and costume designs, created by Fedorovsky, the chief artist of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (1929– 1953), for the Ivan Dzerzhinsky opera Quiet Flows the Don , staged in 1936 at the Bolshoi. The artist was awarded a Grand Prix at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris for this series, as well as for his set and costume designs for the A. Borodin opera Prince Igor .

Provenance: Important private collection, Europe.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the artist’s grandson(inscription on the reverse).

Artist or Maker

Fedor Fedorovic Fedorovskij

Auction Details

Soviet and Post-Soviet Art

MacDougall's

October 12, 2015, 02:30 PM GMT

30A Charles II Street, London, LDN, SW1Y 4AE, UK

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