Framed. Signed, titled, and dated on the front. Stains visible in the top right corner, middle left, and bottom left corner. The bottom left corner is slightly crinkled, visible only under raking light. Robert Gottlieb Collection2023 - Shchukin Gallery Jihan drawing is one of the costumes for one of the Soviet stagings of Arshin Mal Alan ("The Cloth Peddler"), a popular Azerbaijani operetta composed by Uzeyir Hajibeyov in 1913. It is a romantic comedy and one of the most renowned works in Azerbaijani music history. The costumes are inspired by Azerbaijani traditional clothing. Due to the multiple stagings of the operetta across the Soviet Union, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact production.Vsevolod Sakhnovsky (1903-1989) was a Russian and Soviet artist known mainly for his works in theater: set design, costumes, and posters. Sakhnovsky actively participated in the Blue Blouse, an influential avant-garde theatre troupe. He mainly worked on theatrical stage and costume designs. Blue Blouse was a famous theater movement, the purpose of which was to convey political propaganda through choreography. This movement was extremely popular in the 1920s and many prominent authors, composers, producers, and artists made their contribution to the Blue Blouse movement, including such figures as N. Aseev, O. Brik, V. Mayakovsky, S. Tretyakov, I. Dunaevsky, et al. Sakhnovsky also created numerous playbills and posters for Blue Blouse performances, and extensively worked on designs of group's printed production. When the Blue Blouse publications were discontinued, they were replaced by a similar magazine called Small Forms, to which Sakhnovsky contributed many of his works. 23.5*18.75/ 16*11.25 in
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