ALEXANDRE BENOIS | SET DESIGN FOR DAME AUX CAMELIAS: ACT I
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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ALEXANDRE BENOIS
1870 - 1960
SET DESIGN FOR DAME AUX CAMELIAS: ACT I
Signed Alexandre Benois, titled, dated 1923, numbered 25 and inscribed Acte Ier (Un salon chez Marguerite Gautier/Replique de la maquette qui se trouve a la Bibliothèqye de Vienne-Autriche) (on the verso)
Gouache, watercolor and pen and ink on paper
Unframed: 16⅜ x 23⅝ in., 41.6 x 60.1 cm
Framed: 24 x 31½ in., 61 x 80 cm
Executed in 1923.
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Sale: Replica Shoes 's, New York, December 18, 1980, lot 45
Acquired at the above sale
Designed for Ida Rubinstein's production of La Dame aux Camélias at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, in 1923.