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FOUR THEATRE DESIGNS FROM THE 1926 PRODUCTION OF PLATOV'S COSSACKS IN PARIS

image size of smallest: 39.75 by 46.75cm.,15 1/2 by 18 1/4 in.; image size of largest: 39.75 by 55.5cm., 15 1/2 by 21 3/4 in.

all signed with artist's cypher in Latin l.l. ; one with Tamirov collection stamp on reverse

watercolour over pencil on paper with pen and ink

Quantity: 4

PROVENANCE

The Collection of Akim Tamiroff, USA

NOTE

This production was staged by Balieff's Letuchaya mysh' company in the Theatre de la Madeleine, Paris during the autumn of 1926.

Akim Tamiroff (1899-1972) was born in Baku, the son of a wealthy oil man, and studied under Stanislavsky in the Moscow Art Theatre. A talented young actor, he was chosen to tour with the company in Europe but decided to remain in Paris to work in Nikita Balieff's Chauve Souris revue when the tour came to an end. It was at this time that Tamiroff made the aquaintance of Russian emigré artists such as Sergei Sudeikin and Dobuzhinsky and began collecting Russian art.
Eventually moving to America in 1932, Tamiroff became one of the most successful Russian character actors in Hollywood.