Lot 53: MELLER, VADIM

VADIM GEORGEVICH MELLER (RUSSIAN 1884-1962), Costume Design for "Kolbasa (Sausage)" from the cabaret "Krivoe Zerkalo" (Distorting Mirror), 1914, watercolor and ink on paper, 30 x 22.5 cm (11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.), signed lower right, initialed and dated lower left. EXHIBITED: "A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance", a traveling exhibition around Japan to the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum; and the Aomori Museum of Art, April 17-October 28, 2007 LITERATURE, Alla Rosenfeld et al., A World of Stage: "Russian Designs for Theatre, Opera, and Dance", Tokyo: Art Impressions Inc., 2007, the current lot figure no. 70, illustrated on page 91