Dandy Costume designs for Scaramouche

Nielsen (Kay) Costume designs for Leilon, Blondelin, and others, for 'Scaramouche', pen and brown ink, pencil under-drawing, watercolour heightened with silver, inscribed in pencil to lower section, sheet 198 x 520 mm (7 3/4 x 20 1/2 in), under glass, correction or amendment [?] by artist to central figure's bodice, some surface dirt and browning, framed, [circa 1921] Artist uses silve and metalic paint in certail areas.
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Colin White
Literature:
White, Colin, Kay Nielsen: A Biography, forthcoming, fig. 135 [partly reproduced]
Nielsen dressed all the characters in the play: the dandies, the musicians, the guests and, above all, Scaramouche and his troupe, like the dolls and puppets in the illustrations for In Powder and Crinoline" [Colin White, op. cit.]
Framed under glass to 15 x 27.65 inches

Kay Rasmus Nielsen

Pencil, Pen,Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Silver Paint on Paper

15 - 27.5 inches

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