watercolor on paper
43.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
signed lower right

PROVENANCEPrivate Collection, London (purchased before 1940)Private Collection, USAThis watercolor is one of a series of preparatory works that explore the idea of abstract stage decorations. A similar design is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The designs were actually made up in three dimensions and one of these, which is very similar to work offered, can be seen decorating the background in a photograph of Goncharova taken in Rome in 1917. On Larionov