Name: NATALIA GONCHAROVA (1881-1962)
Brand: Set design for 'Le Coq d'or'
Price: 40000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

NATALIA GONCHAROVA (1881-1962)
Set design for 'Le Coq d'or'
both signed 'N. Gontcharowa' and stamped with monogram (lower edge)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper-fronted board, framed as one
both 21 x 8³⁄₄ in. (53.3 x 22.2 cm.)

with Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the parents of the present owner on 5 June 1970.

'Ballet & Theatre Designs at Hutton-Hutschnecker', Arts Magazine, New York, May 1970, illustrated p. 25 as Two Studies for Ornamental Details in the Decor of 'Coq d'Or'.

New York, Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery, Ballet & Theatre Designs, 21 April-10 May 1970.

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With a score by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) and based on a poem by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Natalia Goncharova's costume and set designs for the ballet Le Coq d'or are among her most renowned and acclaimed contributions to theatre design for the Ballets Russes. Goncharova electrified the theatre world with her innovative set designs which combine the flatness of icon painting with the vibrant and abstract patterns of peasant embroidery, thereby demonstrating her mastery of the medium and her distinctive creative vision.