Alexandre BenoisRussian, 1870–1960Версаль
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Where is “Версаль” now? Collection: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Unknown.
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- Р-22135
In the catalog
Sources
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
- Image: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts — © Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
In the life of Alexandre Benois
The whole life1887–1926 · Workplace
Saint Petersburg
1904
“Alphabet in Pictures”
Works for about a year on the “Alphabet in Pictures”, almost his only major work for children, playing with his two-year-old son Kolya as he draws. The censor's permission is dated 24 October 1904, and the book is printed in chromolithography with silver and gold at the Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers in 2,500 copies.
1905–1907 · Workplace
Paris
1905–1907
Second trip to France
During his second trip to France he prepares the publications “The Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III” and “The Russian School of Painting”, works with the magazine Golden Fleece, prints his “Parisian Notes” in the newspaper Slovo and takes part in exhibitions in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. Other accounts say he moved to Paris in 1905 and from then on devoted himself chiefly to stage design.
1906
The “Russian Art Exhibition” in Paris
Following the Tauride exhibition of 1905, he organizes the “Russian Art Exhibition” in Paris together with Diaghilev and Bakst — an undertaking from which the theatrical Russian Seasons abroad will grow.
May 1907
Back to Saint Petersburg for “The Pavilion of Armida”
Returns to Saint Petersburg to work on the design of the one-act ballet “The Pavilion of Armida”, whose libretto he had written for Nikolai Tcherepnin back in 1903; the production did not go ahead at that time.
