ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960) Costume design for A Coachman for the ballet ‘Petrushka’ by Igor Stravinsky at Covent Garden in 1956

signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil ‘Alexander Benois 1956’ (lower left), ‘Petrouchka 1956 (1911) A coachman dressed …’ (upper left), ‘Fancy dressed people’, ‘Covent Garden 1957’, ‘Coachman dressed as a Nurse…’ (upper right); inscribed in pencil ‘… 21 … scene I’ (on the reverse) pencil, ink, pen, watercolor on paper 31.6 х 23.1 cm executed in 1956