Details
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
View of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1885
signed, inscribed and dated 'Alexandre Benois/Le Grand Theatre à St Petersbourg/tel qu'il fait vers 1885' (lower right)
watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper mounted on board
13½ x 20½ in. (34.3 x 52.1 cm.)
Provenance
The Benois family.
The Herenroth collection, New York, 1940s.
Acquired by the present owner in New York in the 1990s.
Literature
A. Benois, Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet, London, 1947, illustrated in frontispiece.
M. Etkind, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua 1870-1960, Leningrad-Moscow, 1965, no. 85.
Exhibition catalogue, A Survey of Russian Painting: Fifteenth Century to the Present, New York, 1967, listed p. [49].
A. Benois, Moi Vspominaniia [My memories], Moscow, 1980, illustrated p. 193.
J. Bowlt (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Theatre of Reason/Theatre of Desire/The Art of Alexandre Benois and Léon Bakst, Lugano, 1998, illustrated p. 65, no. 5.
Exhibited
New York, Gallery of Modern Art, A Survey of Russian Painting: Fifteenth Century to the Present, 14 June-17 September 1967, no. 11.
Lugano, Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Theatre of Reason/Theatre of Desire/The Art of Alexandre Benois and Léon Bakst, 5 June-1 November 1998, no. 5.
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Sale Room Notice
Please note this work was exhibited in 1998 in Lugano rather than Madrid.
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