IRINA STENBERG (1905–1985) Stage Design for Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal

signed in Cyrillic ‘I. Stenberg’ and dated ‘1948’ (lower right), inscribed in Cyrillic ‘Sheridan / Shkola zlosloviya’ (lower left); further signed in Cyrillic ‘I. Stenberg’ and inscribed ‘Sheridan / Shkola zlosloviya’ (along the lower margin of the mount) watercolour and gouache on paper, laid on card image: 22 × 34 cm mount: 40 × 50.5 cm Executed in 1948. The present work is a stage design for Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy The School for Scandal, staged by Georgy Tovstonogov in 1942 at the A.S. Griboyedov Russian Drama Theatre in Tbilisi, with sets designed by Irina Stenberg.