Sketch for the opera Sadko (Primary Title)

Alexandre Benois, Russian, 1870 - 1960 (Artist)

1931
Russian
Works On Paper
Drawings
watercolor with graphite on laid paper
Russia
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 in. (29.85 × 20.32 cm)
65.47.2
Not on view
Part of a set "Five Sketches for the opera Sadko" (65.47.1-5)
Signed and dated in graphite lower left: Alexandre/ Benois/ 1931
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Sadko/ (Rome); upper right: 3/ 3 femmes de marchand (?)
John Koenig Theatre Fund
©artist or artist’s estate

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