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SUDEIKIN, Sergei Iurevich [Serge Soudeikine] (188

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Color lithograph, c. 1921, issued by L'Atelier de PUBLICITÉ d'art "Loubok," Paris (1140 x 790 mm). Provenance: sale Swann 21 Apr 2005, lot 69. A DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATION that beautifully summarizes Sudeikin's considerable contributions to modern Russian stage design. Trained as a painter in Moscow, he went to Paris in 1913 to work with Sergei Diaghilev on the Ballets Russes. He returned in 1920 with the Chauve-souris troupe, the famous cabaret founded in 1908 by Nikita Balieff. The company fled Russia in 1918 for Paris, where they performed for two years and then moved on to New York. In this handsome poster, a mischievous pierrot peeks behind a huge curtain and reveals a large bat flying between Moscow and Paris.

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