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VLADIMIR POLUNIN (1880-1957) SUMMER NIGHTS / UNDERGOUND. 1930. 40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Waterlow & Sons Limited, London. Condition A-: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; minor creases and repaired tears at edges. In the bottom center is depicted "the new Underground headquarters building . . . [which] at ten storeys . . . was London's largest and tallest office block and the city's first American-style skyscraper" (London Transport p. 43). Russian-born Polunin came to London with Diagalev, as the main set designer for the Ballets Russe. He stayed in England and taught a course in stage design at the Slade School of Art. London Transport p. 43.
