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Costume with blue and red ornament

Costume Design
ca. 1914 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a theatre costume for male character in red and blue with a turban. Pencil and bodycolour on cardboard.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCostume with blue and red ornament (generic title)
Materials and techniques
pencil and bodycolour on cardboard
Brief description
Natalia Gontcharova. Costume design for Le Coq d'Or, ca. 1914.
Physical description
Design for a theatre costume for male character in red and blue with a turban. Pencil and bodycolour on cardboard.
Dimensions
  • Height: 378mm
  • Width: 267mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
N. Gontcharova (signed in blue watercolour)
Object history
This design is one of ten of Peasant Women, Russian Dancers and Youths in the opera-ballet Le Coq d'Or by Rimsky-Korsakov, first produced at the Théâtre National de l'Opera, Paris, 24 May 1914.
Purchased from the artist in 1961.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
John Milner A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia London: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 85667 639 0.
Collection
Accession number
E.296-1961

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Record createdJanuary 16, 2007
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