5 June 2013 Russian Art Auctions

5 June 2013

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Costume Design for MacCormick from the Operetta "Shumit Sredizemnoe more"

534. TYSHLER, ALEXANDER (1898-1980)

Costume Design for MacCormick from the Operetta "Shumit Sredizemnoe more", double-sided, signed and variously inscribed in Cyrillic, also further signed, inscribed "Shumit Sredizemnoe more/Tr Muzyk. Komedii" and dated 1951, further with a sketch of a female head on the reverse.

Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper, 40 by 29 cm.
4,000–6,000 GBP


The Oscar Feltsman's operetta Shumit Sredizemnoe more, with set and costume designs by Alexander Tyshler, was staged at the Moscow Academic Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1952.


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