Artist: Lyubov Popova (Russian, 1889-1924).
Title: "Theatre Costume Design for 'The Magnificent Cuckold'".
Medium: Gouache, watercolor, and pen drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1921.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/8 x 8 5/8 in. (289 x 219 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pen, lower right recto; stamped date '06-12-1921' lower right edge; signed in pencil (in the Artist's hand?), verso; collector ink stamps and Cyrillic inscription in orange pencil, verso. Painted on thin cream wove paper. Condition: overall good to very good; scattered foxing recto and verso; jagged top edge where the work was removed from a sketchbook; minor edge toning; right bottom corner crease;. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to:
[email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): Popova was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter, and designer. In addition to costume design she excelled at set design – in 1922 she created the Constructivist décor for Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold’s production of ‘The Magnificent Cuchold,” written by the Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck. Popova died, at the peak of her artistic powers, of scarlet fever at the age of 35. [30223-2-8000]
