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Design for the costume of a girl 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 girl wearing a flower wreath with green, pink and red ribbons, white shirt with red and yellow geometrical pattern, red skirt with pink, orange and yellow geometrical a floral patterns, embroidered petticoat, red sash, white stockings, red shoes and red beads around the neck.
Includes a separate design for a green apron with a floral and wavy pattern in purple and red.

Object details

Categories
Theatre Costume
Dance
Designs
Theatre
Object type
Costume design
TitleDesign for the costume of a girl in the ballet <i>La Foire de Sorotchinsky</i> (generic title)
Materials and techniques
body-colours over pencil
Drawing
Brief description
Design for the costume of a girl in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1940.
Physical description
A drawing of a girl wearing a flower wreath with green, pink and red ribbons, white shirt with red and yellow geometrical pattern, red skirt with pink, orange and yellow geometrical a floral patterns, embroidered petticoat, red sash, white stockings, red shoes and red beads around the neck.
Includes a separate design for a green apron with a floral and wavy pattern in purple and red.
Dimensions
  • Height: 47cm
  • Length: 20.5cm
Taken from Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 30, cat. 103.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • N. Gontcharova (Signed in black body-colour.)
  • (Inscribed in Russian all over.)
    Translation
    Blue squares with the same flowers as on the original and also with a red outline. A yellow apron. Flowers as on the original but their colour to be changed from lilac to green. Without a pink border. All flowers are bright red and a short light green waistcoat. Without the pink line and in green. Yellow blouse. Apron as according to the original. Embroidery is in orange and red the background colour of the apron is white instead of green and a green belt.
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
Blouse
Skirt
Wreath
Ribbons
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, pp. 30, cat. 103.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.315-1961

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Record createdFebruary 19, 2009
Record URL
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