Sketch for a Theatrical Costume - Phototype after Sergei Eisenstein - 1921

1921

Sketch for a theatrical Costume is a modern artwork realized after Sergei Eisenstein in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored phototype print. Includes frame: 44 x 33 cm Fair condit...

Sketch for a theatrical Costume is a modern artwork realized after Sergei Eisenstein in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored phototype print. Includes frame: 45 x 34 cm Fair condit...

Sketch for a theatrical Costume is a modern artwork realized after Sergei Eisenstein in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored phototype print. Includes frame: 45 x 34 cm Fair condit...

Sketch for Theatre is a  modern artwork realized after Sergei Eisenstein in the mid-20th century. Mixed colored phototype print. Includes frame: 45 x 34 cm Fair conditions due to ...

Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to ...

Romans Suta Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously. Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism. A member of the Riga Artists' Group (1920-1924) and the Riga Graphic Artists' Society. Painter of still lifes and figural compositions. After the first experiments in Modernism, he turned to a more realistic manner of representation. The initiator and developer of a national constructive style, especially in interior design; the founder of Baltars creative workshop for porcelain painting (1924-1928); a designer and painter at Kuznetsov...

ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS (1881-1953) Page for the Emperor – Costume Design for Androcles and the Lion Variously inscribed: “Androcles”/No.28/ Two Pages for The Emperor/ Mr Alfree/Mr Bugh/King Watercolour, pen and ink and gold paint Framed 25 by 19 cm., 9 ¾ by 7 ½ in. (frame size 43 by 36 cm., 17 by 14 ¼ in.) Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist. Exhibited: London, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Albert Rutherston – Drawings, Theatre Designs & other Treasures, 2016, no.75. The present work is a costume design for a page in Androcles and the Lion, a play in two acts by George Bernard. Rutherston designed the set and costumes for the 1913 premier production performed at St James’s Theatre, London and produced by Harley Granville-Barker. Born Albert Daniel Rothenstein, he was the youngest of the six children of Moritz and Bertha Rothenstein, German-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1860s. He and his siblings proved to be a hugely talented and artistic family, his elder brother became Sir William Rotherstein (1872-1945), the artist and director of the Royal College of Art; two of his other siblings, Charles Rutherston and Emily Hesslein, both accumulated major modern British and French art collections and his nephew Sir John Rothenstein was direct of the Tate Gallery. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School before moving to London in 1898 to study at the Slade School of Art where he became close friends with Augustus John and William Orpen. He met Walter Sickert during a painting holiday in France in 1900 and by introducing Sickert to Spencer Gove became instrumental in the beginning of the Camden Town Group. He was one of Sickert’s most frequent companions and was one of the original members of the Fitzroy Street Group. Rutherston had a sociable and attractive personality, he frequently travelled abroad with other artists including Max Beerbohm, Spencer Gore, Walter Russell and Edna Clarke Hall...

Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977) Study of a Turkish warrior pencil on paper signed and dated ‘V Nechoumov, 1921’ (lower left) 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm.) Fig...