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Description: Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
Savonarola
gouache and watercolour on paper
8¾ x 12 in. (22.1 x 30.7 cm.)

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Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 May 1990, lot 370.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: London, The Alpine Club, Pavel Tchelitchew, 1898-1957, A Collection of Fifty-Four Theatre Designs, 1976, no. 22.

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Published: Exhibition catalogue, Pavel Tchelitchew, A Collection of Fifty-Four Theatre Designs, 1989-1957, The Alpine Club, London, 1976, no. 2, illustrated.

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Savonarola was produced at the Koeniggratzerstrasse Theatre, Berlin in 1922 and was based on Arthur Gobineau's The Renaissance.