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Lot 42AR

Alexandre Benois
(Russian, 1870-1960)
Set design for Sadko, Act I, 1930

5 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,625 inc. premium

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Alexandre Benois (Russian, 1870-1960)

Set design for Sadko, Act I, 1930
signed, dated and inscribed (lower left and right)
watercolour, gouache and Indian ink over pencil on paper
44.5 x 65cm (17 1/2 x 25 9/16in).

Footnotes

The première of Sadko was held at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1930. In Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet (Putnam, 1947), Benois records that he was given a standing ovation when the curtain went up.

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