Description
Pencil, watercolor, crayon, paper; 38 x 21 cm
Signed l.d.: I Lorentowicz / "Enchantment" / music by A. Bloch
Framed
Costume design for Augustyn Bloch's ballet "Enchantment" staged at the Wroclaw Opera House (1969).
Irena LORENTOWICZ
1908 Warsaw - 1985 Warsaw
Outstanding stage and costume designer, painter, illustrator, educator. A pupil of Tadeusz Pruszkowski, she graduated from the State Institute of Theater Art (1931-1936); 1936-1940 studied in Paris. She realized stage design projects for the most prominent theaters in the country and the world, including 1936-1940 Grand l`Opera Comique, Nijinsky ballets in Paris. In 1941-1960 - the Metropolitan Opera and the Polish Artists Theater in New York. Awarded many times, including in 1936 she received the first prize in the Grand l`Opera competition for her set design for K. Szymanowski's Harnasie, 1937 - Grand Prix for her set design for Nijinsky ballets. Asking price 1200
Estimate 1500 - 1600
◙ droit de suite
Auction 208, 11.12.2021
