ALEXANDRE BENOIS (1870-1960) Сostume design for The Jester for the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad in 1945

signed, titled, inscribed, numbered and dated in pencil ‘Alexander Benois 1945’ (lower right), ‘Le Lac des Cygnes’ (upper left), ‘… Bal du III Acte …’ (upper right) pencil, ink, pen, watercolour on paper 23 x 15 cm executed in 1945