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Lot 39*

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
(Russian, 1874-1947)
'Garden,' stage design for Princess Maleine, 1913

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

Sold for £27,500 inc. premium

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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.

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