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Description: Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
Costume design for 'Petrouchka': The Moor
signed with initials 'AB' (lower right) and inscribed with costume notes
pencil, wax crayon, ink and gouache on paper
15 x 10 in. (38 x 26 cm.)

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Provenance: Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London, no. C2585 as 'Le costume de nègre'.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 10 March 1971, lot 115 as 'Nègre au cimeterre'.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 3 December 1971, lot 103 as 'Le costume de nègre'.

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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
This design was executed circa 1925 for the production of Petrouchka in Milan.
There is a drawing of Josephine Baker as Joan of Arc on the reverse.