Original costume design for Le Coq d'Or

by Rimsky-Korsakov

$3,200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

Watercolour and pencil on laid paper with partial watermark MBM. 320 x 240 mm. Signed by the artist with initials and dated 1932 in pencil at lower left. With pencilled notes in Benois's hand. Very slightly soiled; 35 mm. tear to blank right margin repaired; remnants of mounting paper to upper corners of verso. Possibly a preparatory drawing for the Tsaritsa's costume. Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, Coq d'Or The Golden

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