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Design for the costume of a male dancer 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 young man in a black tall hat wearing a white shirt with yellow, red and blue decorative pattern on the front and around the cuffs, wide dark blue trousers tucked into black boots and tied with an orange belt.

Object details

Categories
Theatre Costume
Dance
Designs
Theatre
Object type
Costume design
TitleDesign for the costume of a male dancer in the ballet <i>La Foire de Sorotchinsky</i> (generic title)
Materials and techniques
body-colours and watercolours
Drawing
Brief description
Design for the costume of a male dancer in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1940.
Physical description
A drawing of a young man in a black tall hat wearing a white shirt with yellow, red and blue decorative pattern on the front and around the cuffs, wide dark blue trousers tucked into black boots and tied with an orange belt.
Dimensions
  • Height: 47cm
  • Length: 20.5cm
Taken from Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 30, cat. 100.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • N. Gontcharova (Signed in brown watercolour.)
  • (Inscribed in Russian.)
    Translation
    N12 Male dancer. 14 costumes and one soloist look on verso
  • (Inscribed in Russian on verso.)
    Translation
    14 costumes and soloist. possible to make sashes in various colours. Sash a bit darker than for male dancers, embroidery in red rather than blue. The shade of the shirt darker and a grey hat.
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.
Subject depicted
Costume
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 30, cat. 100.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.304-1961

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2009
Record URL
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