Christie's: Galerie Popoff: An Enduring Passion for Russian Art: Lot 467
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Thirty-nine costume designs for Abel Gance's film Napoléon
A soldier with a brown coat signed with initials 'A B' (lower left); Le Heïduque de la Reine signed and dated 'Alexandre/Benois/10. VI 1925.' (lower left); Bonaparte à Vienne signed and inscribed indistinctly 'Alexandre Benois/...Rochat' (lower left); Le vieux berger signed 'Alex. Benois' (lower right); twenty- three inscribed as title; thirty-four inscribed 'Napoleon' (on the reverse); one inscribed 'Abel Gance/Napoleon' (on the reverse); five numbered; twenty-four with costume notes
pencil, thirty-four with ink, sixteen with watercolour, nine with gouache, two with coloured pencil, one heightened with gold, thirty on paper laid down on board, eight on paper, one on board
17 3/8 x 10½ in. (44.2 x 26.7 cm.); and smaller (39)
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