Curtain Design for the Ballet "Les Noces"
Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova, French (born Russia), 1881 - 1962
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1915Medium:
Opaque watercolor over graphite on boardDimensions:
Image: 18 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches (47 x 70.5 cm) Sheet (board): 21 1/4 x 28 7/8 inches (54 x 73.3 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1941-79-96Credit Line:
Gift of Christian Brinton, 1941
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1915Medium:
Opaque watercolor over graphite on boardDimensions:
Image: 18 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches (47 x 70.5 cm) Sheet (board): 21 1/4 x 28 7/8 inches (54 x 73.3 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1941-79-96Credit Line:
Gift of Christian Brinton, 1941
Label:
Goncharova’s designs for the 1914 ballet-opera Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) were considered a radical assault on cultured tastes. The jarring color, crude drawing, and ornamental exuberance of her décors exploded onto the stage with the ribald revelry of a peasant festival. Describing a village wedding, Les Noces was to be a follow-up to the sensational success of Le Coq d’Or, but it was finally staged only in 1923 in a completely revised form. Two firebirds of folk legend escort the wedding cortege on this curtain design.
Goncharova’s designs for the 1914 ballet-opera Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) were considered a radical assault on cultured tastes. The jarring color, crude drawing, and ornamental exuberance of her décors exploded onto the stage with the ribald revelry of a peasant festival. Describing a village wedding, Les Noces was to be a follow-up to the sensational success of Le Coq d’Or, but it was finally staged only in 1923 in a completely revised form. Two firebirds of folk legend escort the wedding cortege on this curtain design.
