Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Antoine Pevsner
Costume Design for a Bird's Head
Live auction begins on:
November 21, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Bid
500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Antoine Pevsner
1884 - 1962
Costume Design for a Bird's Head
signed Pevsner and faintly dated 19-15 (center right)
pen and ink, colored crayon and pencil on paper
11 ½ by 8 ⅛ in.
29.2 by 20.6 cm.
Executed in 1915.
Erast Touraou
Mr. and Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, London (acquired by 1976)
Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 6-7 November 1979, lot 207A (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, Stage Designs and the Russian Avant-Garde (1911-1929): A Loan Exhibition of Stage and Costume Designs from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky, 1976-78, no. 72, illustrated
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