Georges WAKHEVITCH (Odessa 1907- Paris 1984) Lot n° 177

The Turtle Inn for the Marseille Opera, ca. 1935 Gouache, Indian ink on paper and pencil on paper 35 x 52,5 cm Information on the bottom left "Act I, V, The Inn of the Turtle". Set for the Theatre of Marseille "If he had been born ten years earlier, he would certainly have belonged to the constellation of decorators and painters who, under the impetus of the great Diaghilev, totally renewed the aesthetics of the stage at the beginning of the century" will say Louis Ducreux, co-founder in 1933 in Marseille with Wakhevitch and André Roussin of the "Grey Curtain" troupe.