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Costume design for a Russian woman in yellow flowered skirt.

Costume Design
ca.1914 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Natalia Goncharova (artist)
Place of origin
France (made)

Design for a theatre costume for female character with a yellow layered skirt.


Object details

Categories
Theatre Costume
Theatre
Designs
Drawings
Opera
Dance
Object type
Costume design
TitleCostume design for a Russian woman in yellow flowered skirt. (popular title)
Materials and techniques
pencil and bodycolour on cardboard
Pencil
Bodycolour
Cardboard
Drawing
Brief description
Natalia Gontcharova. Costume design for Le Coq d'Or, ca. 1914.
Physical description
Design for a theatre costume for female character with a yellow layered skirt.
Dimensions
  • From catalogue height: 38.1cm
  • From catalogue width: 26.7cm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
N. Gontcharova (signed in ink)
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
Skirt
Shoes
Shirt
Bibliographic references
  • Gabriella Belli, ed. La Danza delle Avanguardie. Dipinti, scene e costumi, da Degas a Picasso, da Matisse a Keith Haring. Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 2005. ISBN: 887624557X
  • John Milner A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia London: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 85667 639 0.
  • Ralf Beil, ed. Russland 1900. Kunst und Kultur im Reich des letzten Zaren [In the Empire of the last Tsar. Russia around 1900] Darmstadt: iNSTITUT Mathildehohe Darmstadt, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-8321-9010-1.
  • Jane Pritchard, ed. Diaghilev and the golden age of the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929 London: V&A Publishing, 2010. ISBN: 9781851776139.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.289-1961

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2007
Record URL
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