Alexander Nikolaevich Benois

Property from a Private Collection, England

Alexander Nikolaevich Benois

1870 - 1960

Four Costume Designs for Sleeping Beauty and Two for Petrushka (six works)

two signed in Latin, dated 1956 and variously inscribed; four signed with initials in Latin and variously inscribed

watercolour and ink on paper, four heightened with gold

Sheet: largest 32 by 23cm, 12½ by 9in.; smallest 23.5 by 15cm, 9¼ by 6in.

Framed: four 33 by 24cm, 13 by 9½in.; two 44 by 35cm, 17¼ by 13¾in.

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