$3,125
1908 ink and color pencils on paper 27. 3 x 21 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.) [sight] initialed in Cyrillic 'M. D.' and dated lower right PROVENANCE Given by the artist to Nikolai Zaretskii, Prague Christie`s, London, November 28, 2007, lot 413. LOT NOTES A play by P.Potemkin produced by V. Meyerhold at the Loukomorie Theater at St. Petersburg in 1908. At the end of 1936 Dobuzhinskii traveled to Prague where his friend Nikolai Benois was designing the set for "Prince Igor." The purpose of the trip was to complete negotiations with the National Theatre in Prague about the set and costume designs for P. I. Tchaikovskii's opera "Evgenii Onegin. "The project was a great success and the artist attended the premier of the opera on 10 February 1937. During his activities in Prague, the artist was in contact with local members of the Russian intellectuals which included Valentin Bulgakov, Director of the Russian Cultural History Museum and the graphic artist, Nikolai Zaretskii. Right before the war, Dobuzhinskii moved to America with his family in 1939. He asked Bulgakov to put the part of his archive that had been left in Prague after his departure in the Cultural History Museum for safekeeping. During the war, the Museum was run by Zaretskii, and the archive was protected. Bulgakov returned to Prague in 1945 and took part in negotiations about the transfer of the museum`s collections to funds in the USSR. He wrote to Dobuzhinskii and requested to "see that the archive is handed ove Read more…
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2014-10-25
