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Georges Anatolievich Pogedaieff
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Georges Anatolievich Pogedaieff
- Theatre Set at Night
- signed in Latin and dated 925 t.l.
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 99 by 67cm, 39 by 26 1/2 in.
Literature
Possibly La Russie illustrée, Paris, no.15, 10 April 1926, visible on a b/w photograph taken in the artist's studio c.1925
Possibly Antikvarni Mir, no.7, October 2014, p.142 visible on a b/w photograph taken in the artist's studio c.1925
Possibly Antikvarni Mir, no.7, October 2014, p.142 visible on a b/w photograph taken in the artist's studio c.1925
Catalogue Note
Pogedaieff began his career as a theatre designer in Moscow at the Théâtre Intimé in 1917 before moving to the Korsh and Bolshoi Theatres. During the 1920s he produced set and costume designs for various theatre companies in Berlin, Bucharest and Vienna for Prince Igor, Cyrano de Bergerac, Electra, Macbeth, Turandot among others. In 1922, he worked as director at Boris Romanov's Russian Romantic Ballet in Berlin, where he also had a solo exhibition of his sketches for theatre designs and portraits. He lived permanently in Paris from 1925. He worked for Nikolai Baliev's famous theatre La Chauve-Souris, the first touring Russian cabaret.
The present lot was acquired in France and is thought to be among the earliest from his Paris period. It is unknown whether it was painted in connection with a specific commission, but the same composition features a contemporary photograph of the artist's studio (fig.1). The minor differences in for example the lines of the window and the foreground suggest that either the painting was unfinished at the time the photograph was taken or this is another version by the artist.
The present lot was acquired in France and is thought to be among the earliest from his Paris period. It is unknown whether it was painted in connection with a specific commission, but the same composition features a contemporary photograph of the artist's studio (fig.1). The minor differences in for example the lines of the window and the foreground suggest that either the painting was unfinished at the time the photograph was taken or this is another version by the artist.