Design for the costume of a man in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky
- Object:
Design
- Date:
ca. 1940 (designed)
- Artist/Maker:
Natalia Goncharova, born 1881 - died 1962 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
watercolours and body-colours
- Museum number:
E.308-1961
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D, case DT, shelf 20, box C
Physical description
A drawing of a man with long black mustache wearing a black hat, white shirt with red cuffs, black wide trousers and black boots. He is holding a crook and has a bottle hanging on his left side.
Date
ca. 1940 (designed)
Artist/maker
Natalia Goncharova, born 1881 - died 1962 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
watercolours and body-colours
Marks and inscriptions
N. Gontcharova
No. 9 Chumak. 5 pieces. Korshunov, Fel'dman, Mikvitz, Mironov.
Dimensions
Height: 47 cm, Length: 20.5 cm
Object history note
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.
Descriptive line
Design for the costume of a man in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1940.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 32, cat. 114.
Subjects depicted
Costume; Hat; Bottle; Crook
Categories
Drawings; Designs; Theatre
Production Type
Unique
Collection code
PDP
