SET DESIGN FOR OPERA by THEOPHANE MATSOUKIS c1950 - LISTED - COA

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SET DESIGN FOR OPERA by THEOPHANE MATSOUKIS c1950 - LISTED - COA
SET DESIGN FOR OPERA by THEOPHANE MATSOUKIS c1950 - LISTED - COA
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Theophane Matsoukis ( b.1916 ).
SET DESIGN FOR OPERA.
Original gouache on heavy French illustration board: circa 1950: sheet/image size: 15 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches: signed lower right " Matsoukis ": pencil notation verso ( see photo ): new archival mat: framed under plexiglas in a new silver grey toned woodgrain style frame ( see close up ): frame size is 20 x 26 inches.
NOTE: This work comes with a fascinating biographical package on the artist including set photos and many newspaper rave reviews of his artwork. Affixed to the back of the frame is a 1949 Paris photograph of Matsoukis.
Theophane Matsoukis was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1916. His family originally came from the Greek Ionian island of Kefalonia. In 1933 he established his studio in Paris ( first at the Rue Joseph Bara and later at the Rue de Arras and the Rue du Repos ) . In the 1940s he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts du Louvre , the Sorbonne, and the Ecole Speciale de Architecture in Paris.
Active in Paris during the golden years of the Paris opera, ballet & theatre, Matsoukis emersed himself in the set and costume designs of his contemporaries, Benois, Bakst, Gontcharova, Picasso, and worked with his friend, the artist, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, associated with Balanchine and the Ballet Imperial, the Diagalev and the Ballet Russe.
By the late 1940s, Matsoukas had attained national recognition in France for his bold Modernist set designs and imaginative original costume designs. Matsoukis was honored with commissions to create design sets and costumes for opera, theatre and ballet presentations throughout Europe, including -
Paris
1949 - Studies for Stravinsky Firebird Ballet
Milan
1950 - Stravinsky Opera/Histoire du Soldat/sets & costumes / Firebird Ballet designs for sets
Venice
1953 - Venice Biennale/Balzac Opera/theatre design /costumes
Cannes
1954 - 3 Operas/Palais des Festivals/sets & costumes
Rome
1956 - Teatro Eliseo ( worked with Stravinsky ) Histoire Du Soldat/sets & costumes
Cannes
1956 - Theatro du Casino/Les bavards/Offenbach/Cervantes Opera/isabelle et Pantaloh/Opera
Strasbourg
- 1956 - Opera he cube/ Euripide
Strasbourg
- 1957 - Opera - La Dame de Pique/Tchaikowsky/Pouchkine
Strasbourg
- 1958 - International Festival/ Opera/L'heure Espagnole, Ravel
Ballet Bacchus et Ariane:also presented at the
Monte Carlo
Opera & Vichy theatre )
Spoleto
- 1961 - Palazzo Collicola/City of Spoleto 10 years of the Theatre/sets
Lausanne
- 1963 - Motzart Opera Cosi Fan Tutti/International festival
Frankfort
1964 - studies in German Theatre Design
Barcelona
- 1964 - Concorse International de l'Opera Exhibition/prix
Strasbourg - 1965 - Opera/Creation of France/Opera de Milhaud
Strasbourg
- 1967 - International Festival/Opera and Ballet: Padmavati: by Roussel
Bruxelles
-1967 - Opera National- Theatre Royal La Dame de Pique, Tchaikowsky/Pouchkine
Paris
- 1970 - Continued his graduate studies at the Sorbonne ( urban design & theatre )
( Matsoukis later immigrated to the United States : Retired, he continued to paint and draw for this own pleasure until his death in Berkeley, California in 1989 ).
This work is fully guaranteed. Work comes with a credentialed certificate of authenticity from a museum trained specialist and Sotheby's Associate.
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