Keywords: Tsar Saltan's costume by I.Bilibin (1928, priv.coll).jpg Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin 1876-1942 TSAR SULTAN signed with iniatals in Cyrillic and Latin and dated 1928 m r titled in Cyrillic t r gouache and watercolour on paper in 1904 Bilibin illustrated Pushkin's Tale of Tsar Saltan When Bilibin moved to Paris in 1925 he once again illustrated the Tale of Tsar Saltan this time for Rimsky-Korsakov's adaptation of the 1929 opera for the Opéra privé de Paris http //www sothebys com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/russian-paintings-l08113/lot 263 html 1928 Ivan Bilibin The Tale of Tsar Saltan opera by Bilibin Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources Images from Sotheby's Private collections of Russian art PD-old |