Design for a Butterfly Costume

ca. 1920

Not on view

Theatrical costume for female dancer as fairy, Moscow, 1920. The costume is made up of a knee-length dress with semi-abstract motifs executed in gray, white, and light blue, large, blue butterfly wings with circles colored with white, gray, black, and yellow, a round, purple hat with antennae over her long, brown, curly hair, and gray ruffs around the shoulders and ankles. The dancer is depicted in three-quarter view, standing on pointe, her weight on her right foot and the left foot extended behind her, her arms extended to the sides.

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Title: Design for a Butterfly Costume
Artist: Sergey Chekhonin (Russian, 1878–1936)
Date: ca. 1920
Medium: Graphite, gouache, watercolor.
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (32.2 × 24.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Nikita D. Lobanov, 1968
Object Number: 68.701.7
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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