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Lot 39*
Sold for £ 27,500 (RUB 2,305,654) inc. premium
THE RUSSIAN SALE
4 Jun 2014, 14:00 BST
LONDON, NEW BOND STREET
Property from an important private collection, USA
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947)
'Garden,' stage design for Princess Maleine, 1913
signed with artist's monogram (lower right)
watercolour and gouache on composite board
22 1/2 x 14cm (8 11/16 x 5 1/2in).
FOOTNOTES
Provenance
Collection of Elena I. Roerich, c. 1913
Collection of Esther J. Lichtmann, c. 1924
Collection of Nettie & Louis Horch
Acquired from the above by a private American collector, c. 1970s
Literature
Roerich, Svobodnoye Izzkustvo Publishers, Petrograd, 1916, illus. p. 136, listed p. 222
Christian Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Company, Inc., New York, 1921, no. 70
Frances R. Grant, et al., Roerich, Himalaya, A Monograph, Brentano's Publishers, New York, 1926, p. 193
Garden is one of seven stage designs completed for Princess Maleine, a play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. An adaption of the Brothers Grimm's Maid Maleen, it was staged by the Moscow Liberal Theatre in 1913.
We are grateful to Mr. Gvido Trepša, Senior Researcher at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.