VLADIMIR TATLIN (1885–1953) Costume design for the play 12 months by Marshak in Moscow Art Theatre

expert’s inscription in Cyrillic by Elena Lvova dated 1990 [I confirm that this is a costume sketch for S. Ya. Marshak’s ‘The Twelve Months’ (Moscow Art Theatre) from the collection of A. N. Korsakova.’ Signed Elena Lvova, dated 6 December 1990.] (on the reverse) pencil on paper 30 x 23 cm executed in 1946 PROVENANCE: Collection of Aleksandra Korsakova (1904-1990) Private collection, Europe In 1946, Vladimir Tatlin created the set design for S. Y. Marshak’s play Dvenadtsat mesyatsev [The Twelve Months] The Twelve Months, originally written as a prose fairy tale in 1942, was adapted into a dramatic play in 1943 for the Moscow Art Theatre. The play premiered in 1945 and was subsequently staged at the Moscow Theatre for Young Spectators (1946) and at the Moscow Art Theatre (1948).