Costume design, Russian Peasant in Red Shirt with Yellow Flowers.

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Artist/Maker	Natalia Goncharova (artist)
Place of origin	France (made)

Costume design for male character with false nose and glove. Pencil and bodycolour on cardboard.

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Categories	Theatre Costume Theatre Designs Drawings Opera Dance
Object type	Costume design
Title	Costume design, Russian Peasant in Red Shirt with Yellow Flowers. (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Body colour on cardboard Gouache Pen and Ink Gold Paint Paper Drawing
Brief description	Natalia Sergeevna Gontcharova. Costume design for Le Coq d'Or, c.1941.
Physical description	Costume design for male character with false nose and glove. Pencil and bodycolour on cardboard.
Dimensions	Height: 428mm Width: 273mm
Marks and inscriptions	N. Gontcharova (Signed in pencil)
Object history	One of ten designs for costumes for Peasant Women, Russian Dancers and Youth in the opera-baller 'Le coq d'Or' by Rimsky-Korsakov, first produced at the Théâtre National de l'Opera, Paris, 24 May 1914. Purchased from the artist in 1961.
Subjects depicted	Nose Nose Gloves Trousers Shoes (Footwear) Hat
Bibliographic references	Gabriella Belli, ed. La Danza delle Avanguardie. Dipinti, scene e costumi, da Degas a Picasso, da Matisse a Keith Haring. Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 2005. ISBN: 887624557X John Milner A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia London: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 85667 639 0. Ralf Beil, ed. Russland 1900. Kunst und Kultur im Reich des letzten Zaren [In the Empire of the last Tsar. Russia around 1900] Darmstadt: iNSTITUT Mathildehohe Darmstadt, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-8321-9010-1.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.294-1961

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Record created	January 29, 2007
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