gouache with pen and ink on paper
53.5 x 40 cm (21 x 15 3/4 in.)
signed lower right in Latin characters in pencil, A. Exter

PROVENANCECollection of Marcus Oliver, LondonCollection of Darius Tale Yar Khan, LondonThis lot is being sold with a certificate from Nadia Filatoff, and will be reproduced in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist.  Ms. Filatoff suggests that this work is a costume design for the unrealised theatrical production The Invisible Lady, which was to be performed at the Moscow MXAT in 1924.