Costume Design for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes

Featuring a trompe l'oeil screen depicting antique books of poetry, an inkwell with plume, wax-sealed letters and papers. Mounted on a dark-teal painte...

Picturesque 1822 engraving of the pyramid built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, circa 18 BC. Luigi Rossini (1790-1857) was an Italian artist celebrated for his view...

Extremely fine embroidery of a neoclassical maiden dressed as a shepherdess in a forest with a rustic thatched cottage in background. Wonderful use of short and long stitches and sha...

With rectangular mirror plate within a conforming surround with outset corners and enriched with gadrooned and egg and dart borders, foliate sprays to the corners and the sides with ...

Watercolor painting of a Russian dancer from the Russian theatre of the 20th century.

Two costume drawings for a production of "L'Incoronazione du Poppea." Watercolor and ink on paper. Matted and framed in white painted wood with glass....

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...

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...