3 June 2015 Russian Art Auctions

3 June 2015

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Set Design for Carlo Goldoni's Play "Servant of Two Masters"

§ 124. BENOIS, ALEXANDER (1870-1960)

Set Design for Carlo Goldoni's Play "Servant of Two Masters", signed and dated 1920.

Pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper, 35 by 53.5 cm.
3,000-5,000 GBP


Provenance: Important private collection, Germany.

Literature: M. Etkind, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua 1870–1960, Leningrad-Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1965, No. 75, illustrated in black and white.


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