AUCTION 32: APRIL 2022 DECORATIVE AND FINE ART SALE

AN ALEXANDRE BENOIS RUSSIAN WATERCOLOR PAINTING, 1930

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Start price: $2,500

Estimated price: $4,000 - $5,500

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Alexandre Benois (Russian, 1870-1960), watercolor with pen and ink painting, Set Design for Manon, 1930. Signed and dated 1930 lower left, inscribed in French lower right. Matted and framed. Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist, and founding member of Mir Iskusstva (World of Art), an art movement and magazine. As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal influence on modern ballet and stage design.

Provenance: Purchased from a Europen-based house.

Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 12 5/8 in., (47 x 32 cm.)

Condition: Excellent.