Minneapolis Institute of Art

Portrait of Boris Evgenievich Kochno

Sergei Yurievich Soudeikine

Date

1921

Medium

Watercolor, ink on paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Sergei Yurievich Soudeikine designed sets for the Ballets Russes and was close with Serge Diaghilev. This handsome profile portrait depicts Boris Kochno (1904-1990), who, as dancer, poet, and librettist, and as Diaghilev's lover and close collaborator, was a significant figure in the international world of ballet. In 1921, the year of this portrait, he wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's one-act comic opera Mavra, based on Alexander Pushkin's The Little House in Kolomna (1830). Russia, Asia

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