Two tetralnyh sketch N. Benoit
 

Two of costume sketches, performed by Nicholas Benoit to the Bolshoi Theater Opera "Midsummer Night's Dream", 1965,
watercolor on paper, sm.tehnika,
large format 53h39 see, paired, signed
donated by Nikolai Alexandrovich (not me, of course, but there is a dedicatory letter)),
immediately sold for 3100 euros each,
Photos and details in a personal message.

Sorry, Cyril, that long - it was necessary to reduce the size of Photoshop and the computer now, something impossible to brake, perhaps, too, wanted to sleep))

Gala, then analyze tomorrow, OK?
Fresh eye and head.
It is interesting, but there are issues now consider and articulate.

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Size-class, so you can draw, the couple will keep the whole wall!
I see even ...

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I am a genius! Even the full image was not, and I thought, instead of Britten, not a "Midsummer Night's Dream. On foot!
But seriously, I have a question: what with the angles?

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By Nikolai Alexandrovich that say something, and all so clear, but that city guard is interesting. Maybe there the 60th, the flag-late, to the sketch does not have a relationship?
I saw the sketch on the back of one suit entry-job wardrobe shop quite a different spectacle. However, there the actor was the same. Costumes were sewn on him.

In 1924 left for Paris at the invitation of the National Opera ... In 1926 worked on ballets Ida Rubinstein in Paris.

"Since 1925 he lived in Italy ...
In 1936 became director of the staging of La Scala in Milan, in his post 35 years ...
In the 1940 - 1950 designed the series of performances with his father, who came to Milan. All participated in the design of nearly 300 performances. In 1956 Moscow hosted the exhibition of scenery and costumes by Nicholas Benoit Mussorgsky. In 1964 his works were exhibited at the Bolshoi Theater at the exhibition of paintings of the Museum of La Scala. At the invitation of the Bolshoi Theater designed the staging of the Britten "Midsummer Night's Dream" (1965) and Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" (1978).
In 1975, he became the first laureate of the "Golden Bibb" established for services in the field of scenography. "

That's from his biography on the site, everything converges.
Cyril, if the shoe to determine ... what do you say, probably still a genius.

Lower corners are cut, probably, initially, judging by the signature. Hard to say what is needed, he gave them a lady.

So I have not defined, but the first thought this was.
In the corners: perhaps they were not very neat, because sketches sudyu on markers of been in work in the shops, ie this is from the theater of images, rather than simply-designed afterwards, in explanation. This is their dopolniielnaya value and a special charm for them and the history of the famous productions Pokrovsky, and the history of the artists and the music genius, and the libretto, and Gabda-not Khukhro-Muhrram ... Huh?

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Yes, up to 72 th.
As you approach to the attribution is responsible, everyone would be so.

Of course, so it can be seen, but the fact that they donated to the lady by the author, I think, suggests that this is the best of this work on the production