Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich, 1874-1947
A diptych: stage designs for Tristan and Isolde
titled in ink on the stretcher
monogrammed on the right panel (lower right), the reverse with pages from the sale catalogue and a photocopy of a letter from the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York tempera on canvas
each canvas 51 x 76 cm.(20 ¼ x 30 in).
titled in ink on the stretcher
monogrammed on the right panel (lower right), the reverse with pages from the sale catalogue and a photocopy of a letter from the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York tempera on canvas
each canvas 51 x 76 cm.(20 ¼ x 30 in).
Sold for
£196,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- In 1912, Roerich produced his first designs for Tristan and Isolde, an opera by Wagner in three acts. They were commissioned by the Moscow theatre owner Sergei Zimin for a production that was never staged due to the outbreak of the First World War.
Provenance:
Mrs Abraham Rosenberg, San Francisco
The San Francisco Museum of Art
Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco Important Paintings from the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art, 16 November, 1971, lot 74
Category: Fine Art / Russian Art
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