Léonid Opanasievitch Pisarenko Theatrical Costume Design For A Harlequin Circa.1940 Chelsea JI Smith 1652-1743

JI Smith 1652-1743

Provenance: The Sitwell Collection

Several versions of this portrait by Peters exist

An interesting and unusual piece of British cinema history

Léonid Opanasievitch Pisarenko Theatrical Costume Design For A Harlequin Circa.1940 Chelsea JI Smith 1652-1743Lonid Opanasievitch Pisarenko 1907 1979 Ukrainian School 20th. Century. Design for a Harlequin. Gouache on buff paper. 17 by 18 cms. Circa. 1940 Ukrainian theatre and Costume designer and Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Pisarenko studied with Boris Kosarev at the Kharkiv Art Institute, graduating in 1936. Following distinguished War Service with the Red Army, he returned to theatre work designing primarily for the Kyiv and Kharkiv Theatres and