Set design for Shakespeare's Othello, Act 1
Alexandra Exter Russian
Publisher Editions des Quatre Chemins French
Subject William Shakespeare British
Not on view
This print encapsulates Exter’s design for the opening scene of Shakespeare’s Othello and comes from a group of prints that distills her innovative ideas. As an influential modernist painter and stage designer, the artist moved between her native Russia, Germany, and France before settling in Paris, where she taught at the Académie de l’Art Moderne. In a radical new approach to staging, colored screens represent Venetian facades, and a spiral stair leads to a lightly indicated balcony outside the room where Desdemona’s father sleeps. Below, Iago and Rodrigo simulate a robbery to wake the senator so they may inform him that his daughter has eloped with Othello.
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