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Town Dwellers, Costume Design for N. Rimsky-Korsokov's Opera "The Maid of Pskov"
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◎ 8. ROERICH, NICHOLAS (1874-1947)

Town Dwellers, Costume Design for N. Rimsky-Korsokov's Opera "The Maid of Pskov", signed with initials, inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1909.

Gouache on paper, 29.5 by 27 cm.
10,000-15,000 GBP

Provenance: The Russian Auction, Stockholms Auktionsverk, 4 October 2007, lot 126.
Private collection, Europe.

The present lot is from the series of set and costume designs for the 1909 production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsokov’s The Maid of Pskov at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. This production was part of the Diaghilev season and Fedor Chaliapin starred in the role of Ivan the Terrible.

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