ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960) Сostume design for the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, probably by René Blum’s Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1938

inscribed, numbered in pencil, signed ‘Alexander Benois’ (on the reverse) pencil, ink, pen, watercolour on paper 37.5 x 26 cm Provenance: collection of John Carr Doughty