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Drawing, Costume Design: Red Queen, for "Checkmate"
This is a Drawing. It was music composed by Arthur Bliss and designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and production directed by Ninette de Valois and made for (as the client) The Royal Opera House. It is dated ca. 1947 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Firescreen, Le Couronnement d'Esther
- block-printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-3
- White queen Chesspiece
- ivory.
- Gift of C. McKim Norton.
- 1949-150-2-a/c
- Costume, Red King for Checkmate
- costume.
- The Sarasota Ballet.
- 20.2020.2a/c
Its dimensions are
39.5 × 30.5 cm (15 9/16 × 12 in.)
It is signed
Signed in black ink, lower right: E. Mcknight Kauffer
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: back; upper left: Lacquer Paint black [arrow to hat brim]; upper right: [two lines to hat peaks] these two on front plane / [arrow from hat peak] this one at back; center right: gold (shine); lower right: [arrow to leg] pattern on tights / cloak cape can be used / or not.; in black ink, lower right: Red Queen “Checkmate”
Cite this object as
Drawing, Costume Design: Red Queen, for "Checkmate"; Music composed by Arthur Bliss (British, 1891–1975); Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Production directed by Ninette de Valois (Irish, 1898–2001); Client: The Royal Opera House; USA; brush and gouache, graphite on white paper; 39.5 × 30.5 cm (15 9/16 × 12 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-277
