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Sale 2556 | Lot 143
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Sale 2556 - Lot 143
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ALEXANDRA EXTER (1882-1949)
Village Church. Set design for an unidentified production. Graphite on paper. 310x240 mm; 12 1/4x9 1/2 inches. Drawing has come loose from 20x13-inch matte and mount. Signed "Alexandra Exter" on matte at right.
Provenance: Gift of the artist to her student, Vera Cohn; thence by descent.
Based on similar drawings, Exter likely created this design while working for the theater ensemble of Alexander Tairov in Moscow in the 1910s. While there, she created numerous costumes for various productions and designed sets that transformed two-dimensional stage spaces into three-dimensional abstract structures by incorporating multi-level platforms that would be illuminated by intersecting rays of light.
Village Church. Set design for an unidentified production. Graphite on paper. 310x240 mm; 12 1/4x9 1/2 inches. Drawing has come loose from 20x13-inch matte and mount. Signed "Alexandra Exter" on matte at right.
Provenance: Gift of the artist to her student, Vera Cohn; thence by descent.
Based on similar drawings, Exter likely created this design while working for the theater ensemble of Alexander Tairov in Moscow in the 1910s. While there, she created numerous costumes for various productions and designed sets that transformed two-dimensional stage spaces into three-dimensional abstract structures by incorporating multi-level platforms that would be illuminated by intersecting rays of light.
Condition:
Drawing has come loose from 20x13-inch matte and mount. Four corners have discolored cellotape and/or dried and discolored adhesive residue from previous mount. Small imperfection within roof of house near lower left. Very small dot of discoloration on church facade to upper left of archway on second level. Verso is blank, with some textured corners from adhesive removal. Surface separation to lower right corner of sheet on verso. Matte and mount have some soiling and are unevenly toned. Darkly drawn and detailed.
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