Bidspirit auction | Dobuzhinsky M.V.

Dobuzhinsky M.V. - Costume design for A.K. Glazunov's ballet ”Raymonda.”. Year:  1932 Technique:  Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper. Size:  35х24,7. Descripton:  Monogram, date, and stamp lower left. Acquired at the Drouot Montaigne auction, ”A Collection of Works from the Collection of the Artist's Son, Rostislav Dobuzhinsky.” Paris, November 23, 2005. Dobuzhinsky Mstislav Valerianovich (1875, Novgorod - 1957, New York). He studied in St. Petersburg, at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1884–1885), and also (1899–1901) in Munich with A. Ashbe and in Nadbanye (Hungary) with S. Hollosy; in 1901 he studied engraving under the guidance of V.V. Mate. One of the active members of the artistic association “World of Art” since 1902. Lived in St. Petersburg, in 1918–1919 in Vitebsk, in 1924–1926 and 1929–1938 in Kaunas, in 1926–1929 in Paris, in 1938–1939 in London, from 1939 mainly in New York. A supporter of the Art Nouveau style and symbolism, he turned to historical subjects and portraits. In the 1910s created drawings and caricatures for the magazines “Golden Fleece”, “World of Art”, “Zhupel”, “Apollo”, “Satyricon” and others. He worked in book illustration, designed “White Nights” by F.M. Dostoevsky (1923) and “Three Fat Men” by Yu.K. Olesha (1925). He was an outstanding set designer, collaborated with the Moscow Art Theater, S.P. Diaghilev's enterprise, the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater, the Metropolitan Opera (New York) and many other theaters; worked in cinema. His decorations and costumes were an intermediate link between modernism and avant-garde. He left a book of memoirs (published in New York in 1976, in Moscow in 1987).