Lot 61
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich
  • Three Costume Designs
  • all variously signed in Cyrillic and with initials and dated 1920, 1921 and 1922; two further inscribed with production details on the reverse
  • watercolour over pencil on paper; gouache on paper; pencil on paper and card
  • largest: 38.5 by 26.5cm; 15 1/4 by 10 1/2 in.

Provenance

The family of the artist
Acquired by the present owner in the 1980s

Catalogue Note

According to the reverse inscription, the costume design for a doctor was executed in Sevastopol in the Winter of 1919 and is for an unrealised production of Arlekinovy zloklyuchenii. The 'Cake Walk' is a design for Rumnev in a production by Lukinin set to music by Debussy.