Oriental costume design for elegant woman

Boris Konstantinovitch Bilinsky

20th century · pencil, gouache, brush and black ink · Drawings and Prints

Oriental costume design for an elegant woman, consisting of a tight-fitting, sleeveless, blue dress with long train, decorated with a garland of large yellow and red flowers and green leaves, worn over a white chemise with long, puff sleeves decorated with blue, semi-abstract motifs. The head is covered with a blue scarf, and crowned by a large, scale-shaped headdress, decorated with a bundle of large, orange rosettes and red flowers. Her face is heavily made up with blue eyeshadows, red lips and a black mole on her right cheek, and a green, tassel-shaped earring hangs from her right ear. She holds a long, green cigarette holder with a lit cigarette on her right hand, against her hip, and golden binoculars, which hang from a long strip of pearls around her neck, on her left hand. Her right wrist is decorated with a beaded, red bracelet; the left arm is wrapped by several beaded bracelets of red, green, and orange colors.

Artist

Boris Konstantinovitch Bilinsky

Date

20th century

Medium

pencil, gouache, brush and black ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Nikita D. Lobanov, 1969