Auction 79 Part 1 Housing and communal services will die-art is forever !
By The Arc
Jun 19, 2021
Moscow, embankment of Taras Shevchenko, d. 3, Russia
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LOT 87:

Sketches for the production of the State Free Satire-Propaganda Theater.

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Sketches for the production of the State Free Satire-Propaganda Theater.
Baku, 1923 - 4 l. Paper, gouache; passepartout size: 40 x 28.5 cm, image size: 33 x 18 cm. The color rendering for the third sketch is distorted by the technique - in reality, the colors are much brighter. Minor traces of existence around the perimeter and on the back of the sheets.



Sketches for one of the first productions of the State Free Satire-Agitatheater, which today bears the name of the Baku Russian Drama Theater named after S. Vurgun.



[On December 20, 1920, according to the Decree of the People's Commissariat of Education, Azerneshr and AZROST, the State Free Satire-Agit Theater was officially opened in Baku. The theater was formed on the basis of the troupe of the N. F. Baliyev theater "The Bat" that had collapsed in Tbilisi and part of the collective of the Momus theater, which was disbanded by the decision of the revolutionary government.
The head of the theater and the main director was V. Schweitzer, the administrator-P. Oreshkov, the writer-N. Gorodetskaya. The theater existed until 1923.]

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