Sep 29, 2016 - Sale 2423

Sale 2423 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
NICHOLA ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS.
Act II, Scene II. Set design for Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" opera at the Teatro Della Scala in Milan in 1944, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of Puccini's death. Ink and crayon on thick paper. 241x349 mm; 9 1/2x13 3/4 inches. Signed in lower right image. Preliminary sketch on verso. Lacking bottom right corner, dampstain to upper left edge. Hinged to matte, framed.
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Benois (1901-1988) was a Russian-born scenographer, set, and costume designer who studied under his father Alexandre Benois, the artist for the Imperial Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg. After immigrating to Paris at age 22, he worked under Sergei Diaghilev as the principal set designer for several Ballets Russes productions. Eventually, he relocated to Italy where he became the lead scenographer for the Teatro Della Scala in Milan. Over the course of his career, he worked on an estimated 300 productions around the world.