Auction 32
AUCTION 32: APRIL 2022 DECORATIVE AND FINE ART SALE
By HELIOS
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Apr 24, 2022
HELIOS AUCTIONS 1050 Second Avenue Gallery # 52 New York, NY 10022 USA, United States
Russian and European decorative and fine art. Paintings, porcelain, silver and bronze.
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LOT 1:
AN ILYA SHENKER SIGNED LITHOGRAPH, BALLET SERIES, "FIREBIRD"
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Start price:
$
100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 28%
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AN ILYA SHENKER SIGNED LITHOGRAPH, BALLET SERIES, "FIREBIRD"
Signed bottom right, numbered 92/150 A series of 8 silkscreen-lithographs that are signed and numbered by artist Ilya Shenker. The gift was donated by Sandra Genter to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division possibly in 2013. The lithograph depicts a scene from "The Firebird" Ballet, a couple dancing in the center. the ballet was orchestrated by Igor Stravinsky and was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company. The original choreography was done by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois on a scenario based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and its blessing and curse on its owner.
Dimensions: 19 7/8 x 14 3/8 in., (50.5 x 36.5 cm.)
Condition: Excellent.
