Letter, signed : Monte-Carlo, Monaco, to Natalia Goncharova, 30 April 1921.

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Letter, signed : Monte-Carlo, Monaco, to Natalia Goncharova, 30 April 1921.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68916791

Letter, in cursive Cyrillic, is addressed to Larionov's lifelong companion and eventual wife, Natalia Goncharova, and concerns preparations for costumes for a Ballets Russes production. Larionov offers advice on how to cope with the notoriously difficult Diaghilev. He signs the letter "Misha." [Information from dealer's description.] Letter consists of four sides of a folded quarto sheet, which, along with the envelope, carries the letterhead of the Hotel Terminus et Cosmopolitan in Monte Carlo.

1 leaf, folded: (4to).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7974977

University of Michigan

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