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Design for a woman's costume in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky

Costume Design
ca. 1940 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Goncharova (artist)
Place of origin
France (designed)

A drawing of a woman in orange head-dress with red and green ribbons wearing a white blouse embroidered with red geometrical pattern, brown waistcoat with wavy white pattern around the edges, red skirt with green and red geometrical pattern, embroidered petticoat, apron with rows of red and white triangles, orange belt scarf and black boots. Orange and red beads.


Object details

Categories
Theatre Costume
Dance
Designs
Theatre
Object type
Costume design
TitleDesign for a woman's costume in the ballet <i>La Foire de Sorotchinsky</i> (generic title)
Materials and techniques
watercolours and body-colours
Drawing
Brief description
Design for a woman's costume in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1940.
Physical description
A drawing of a woman in orange head-dress with red and green ribbons wearing a white blouse embroidered with red geometrical pattern, brown waistcoat with wavy white pattern around the edges, red skirt with green and red geometrical pattern, embroidered petticoat, apron with rows of red and white triangles, orange belt scarf and black boots. Orange and red beads.
Dimensions
  • Height: 47cm
  • Length: 20.5cm
Taken from Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 29, cat. 98.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • N. Gontcharova (Signed in black watercolour.)
  • (Inscribed in Russian.)
    Translation
    N 22. 5. 4. Wide apron. Blouse. Edge of (?). Green. Head scarf. Embroidery in dark red. Bottom corners of apron and border of the skirt in dark green. Woman's jacket dark green light green as ribbons. Shawl. 2 green squares change for dark blue. Blouse embroider with orange. Bottom corners. Instead of red orange. Boots have to be chosen according to the tone of every costume.
Object history
This costume design was created for an adaptation for ballet of Mussorgsky's opera based on the story by Gogol. The earliest version with décor and costumes by Goncharova was staged at the Théâtre des Champ-Élysées in 1926. This drawing is for a later production given by the Ballets Russes de Paris at the Salle Pleyel, Paris in August 1940.
Purchased from the artist in 1961.
Subjects depicted
Costume
Ribbons
Blouse
Skirt
Shawl
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 29, cat. 98.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.318-1961

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2009
Record URL
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