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BENOIS, Nicola (1901-1988). Set design for "The I

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1925. Gouache on paper laid on board (440 x 595 mm). Inscribed, signed and dated July 3, 1925 lower right. Framed. The inscription reads in Cyrillic "To dear and beloved Nikolai Argutinskii from Koka Benois." The Inspector General is Gogol's satirical play, published in 1836 and revised for the 1842 edition. Based on an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, this comedy of errors portrays human greed, stupidity, and the deep corruption of power in tsarist Russia.

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