Design for the costume of a girl in the ballet La Foire de Sorotchinsky
Costume Design
ca. 1940 (designed)
ca. 1940 (designed)
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A drawing of a young girl in a red head scarf and a wreath made of yellow flowers and decorated with pink, yellow and green ribbons; dressed in a white blouse embroidered with red flower pattern, a pink skirt with geometrical patter in red, pink, yellow, purple and white with an embroidered petticoat underneath and tied with a purple sash; white stockings and red shoes; red and yellow beads.
Object details
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| Title | Design for the costume of a girl in the ballet <i>La Foire de Sorotchinsky</i> (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolours and body-colours |
| 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 young girl in a red head scarf and a wreath made of yellow flowers and decorated with pink, yellow and green ribbons; dressed in a white blouse embroidered with red flower pattern, a pink skirt with geometrical patter in red, pink, yellow, purple and white with an embroidered petticoat underneath and tied with a purple sash; white stockings and red shoes; red and yellow beads. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| 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. 29, cat. 96.
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| Accession number | E.317-1961 |
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| Record created | February 17, 2009 |
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