Design for the costume of a Gypsy in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky
Costume Design
ca. 1940 (designed)
ca. 1940 (designed)
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A drawing of a woman with long black braids wearing a coral red top, a yellow scarf tied over the shoulders and a long purple skirt decorated in a pattern of yellow or red flowers and dark blue foliage. Her neck is decorated with beads and there are bracelets on her wrists.
Object details
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| Title | Design for the costume of a Gypsy in the ballet <i>La Foire de Sorotchinsky</i> (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | body-colours and watercolours |
| Brief description | Design for the costume of a Gypsy in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1940. |
| Physical description | A drawing of a woman with long black braids wearing a coral red top, a yellow scarf tied over the shoulders and a long purple skirt decorated in a pattern of yellow or red flowers and dark blue foliage. Her neck is decorated with beads and there are bracelets on her wrists. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | N. Gontcharova (Signed in brown watercolour.) |
| 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 31, cat. 106.
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| Accession number | E.309-1961 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2009 |
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