Lot 26
  • 26

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • Costume Design for St. Andrew in the Unrealized Production Liturgie, 1915
  • signed N. Gontcharova. (lower right)
  • pochoir

  • 30 by 22 1/4 in.
  • 76 by 56.5 cm

Provenance

Washington Irving Gallery, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, June 22, 1983, lot 170
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, Russian Avant-garde Art from the Schreiber Collection, September-October 1984, no. 19
Storrs, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Russian Avant-garde Art from the Schreiber Collection, January-March 1986

Literature

Jennifer Roth, Russian Avant-garde Art from the Schreiber Collection, New York, 1984, illustrated
Centre Georges Pompidou, Nathalie Gontcharova, Michel Larionov, 1995, p. 101, pl. 9, illustrated

Condition

Pochoir. The edges are uneven. There is a small stain to the left, a small white stain in the lower right corner, and a small stain to the brown line through the center of the figure on the left side. There is very minor foxing in the lower area of the composition, below pigment. Held in a gold painted wood frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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