Lot 153
  • 153

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • Curtain Design for The Golden Cockerel
  • signed in Latin l.r.; further titled and numbered 278 on the reverse
  • gouache over pencil on paper laid on board
  • 47.5 by 51cm, 18 3/4 by 20in.

Provenance

Collection of Madeleine Rocher-Jauneau, head curator at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Thence by descent to her son
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nathalie Gontcharova, 1969, no.84

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Nathalie Gontcharova, Lyon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1969, no.84 listed as Projet de rideau; fig.18 illustrated

Condition

The sheet has been laid on board and is slightly undulated. The sheet has discoloured and there is a layer of light surface dirt. Held in a simple wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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