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Costume designs for Scaramouche

Creator: Kay Nielsen
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Nielsen (Kay) Costume designs for Leilon, Blondelin, and others, for 'Scaramouche', pen and brown ink, pencil under-drawing, watercolour heightened with silver, inscribed in pencil to lower section, sheet 198 x 520 mm (7 3/4 x 20 1/2 in), under glass, correction or amendment [?] by artist to central figure's bodice, some surface dirt and browning, framed, [circa 1921] Artist uses silve and metalic paint in certail areas.
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Colin White
Literature:
White, Colin, Kay Nielsen: A Biography, forthcoming, fig. 135 [partly reproduced]
Nielsen dressed all the characters in the play: the dandies, the musicians, the guests and, above all, Scaramouche and his troupe, like the dolls and puppets in the illustrations for In Powder and Crinoline" [Colin White, op. cit.]
Framed under glass to 15 x 27.65 inches

More Information

Documentation:	Ample Provenance
Origin:	Denmark
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Pencil, Pen,Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Silver Paint on Paper
Condition:	Good. Good for a work of this age. some surface scuffs and blemishes, and scattered light soiling. The artist corrected part of the woman's dress.
Creation Date:	1920 circa
Styles / Movements:	Post Impressionism, Surrealism, Illustration
Incollect Reference #:	857205

Dimensions

W.	27.5 in;	H.	15 in;
W.	69.85 cm;	H.	38.1 cm;

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