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Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov
(Russian, 1889-1974)
Stage design for Arthur Schnitzler's The Lady with the dagger, circa 1955

4 June 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £12,000

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Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (Russian, 1889-1974)

Stage design for Arthur Schnitzler's The Lady with the dagger, circa 1955
signed twice in Latin (lower right), numbered 'N1' (lower left), further inscribed (on verso) in French by the artist 'The Lady with the dagger', a different hand inscribes 'Arthur Schnitzler, production of Jacques Polieri'
gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper
38 x 56cm (14 15/16 x 22 1/16in).

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Provenance
The artist's studio
Sotheby's, 2 December 2004, lot 111

The present lot is sold with a certificate of authenticity by Vladimir and Andrei Hofmann who have confirmed the authenticity of the work. It will be included in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist.

Annenkov emigrated to France in 1924, where he continued to work as an artist as well as costume designer for motion pictures. He was actively engaged with avant-garde theatre and cooperated with Jaques Poleri, the founder of Modern French scenography. He worked on set designs for Ionesco, Tardieu and Schnitzler. The Lady with the dagger was never staged, but Annenkov completed a series of sketches for it. The design for The Lady with the dagger is typical of Annenkov's style in which he combines realism and abstraction: in the present lot, for example, the portrait of a lady on the wall is a picture within a picture.

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