Fiodor Fiodorovsky. Decor design for Bizet’s opera Carmen, 1922. Gouache, lead white and varnish. Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Isaac Rabinovich. Set for Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata, 1923. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
Ignaty Nivinsky. Decor design for Gozzi’s play Princess Turandot, 1922. Watercolour on paper. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
Liubov Popova. Set for Crommelynck’s farce The Magnanimous Cuckold, 1922. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
Varvara Stepanova’s set design. Photograph of performance of Tarelkin’s Death, 1922.
Top four images: Art of the October Revolution, Compiler, Mikhail Guerman, Trans., W.Freeman, D.Saunders, C.Binns, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1986
Bottom image: The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, Eds., Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980
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