BENOIS, ALEXANDER - Stage Design for the Ballet </i>Diane de Poitiers,<i> produced by Ida Rubinstein with choreography by Michel Fokine and music by Jacques Ibert, first performed at the Paris Opera on 30 April 1934

MacDougall Auctions 7-11 June 2010

7 June 2010

Stage Design for the Ballet </i>Diane de Poitiers,<i> produced by Ida Rubinstein with choreography by Michel Fokine and music by Jacques Ibert, first performed at the Paris Opera on 30 April 1934

638. BENOIS, ALEXANDER 1870-1960

Stage Design for the Ballet Diane de Poitiers, produced by Ida Rubinstein with choreography by Michel Fokine and music by Jacques Ibert, first performed at the Paris Opera on 30 April 1934 signed and dated '3 VII 33'

Gouache, watercolour, ink and pencil on paper, 16.5 by 28 cm.
2,000-3,000 pounds

Related literature: For more works by Benois for Diane de Poitiers, see L. Salmina-Haskell, Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London, V & A, 1972, p. 10, cat. 17.

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