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JUNE 2024 SALE OF FINE ARTS AND COLLECTIBLES
Lot 99:
Constantin Korovin (1861-1939), a mixed media on paper costume design sketch for Bolshoy Theatre’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera "The Tsar’s Bride" (1916). Signed lower left, inscribed upper left. Has a label inscribed "Costume by C. Corovine" on the verso. Matted.
Konstantin (Constantin) Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. At the age of thirteen entered the architectural department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a year later he moved to the painting department. He studied with Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Polenov and Vasily Perov. Academician of painting, since 1905. Chief decorator and artist of Moscow theatres, since 1910.
Provenance: Purportedly in the collection of Maria Antonovna Denikina, daughter of General Denikin, Lakewood, NJ.
Purchased from the above in 1994 by the Fine Art Association of Russian Americans, NY.
Private collection.
14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in., (37.5 x 24.7 cm.)
Condition: Perfect.
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