An illustration for ‘The Golden Cockerel’, the satirical opera by Rimsky-Korsakov (to a story by Alexander Pushkin). The image formed part of my month-long ‘Mariinsky’ exhibition, created as a celebration of Russian music to coincide with a series of concerts (at Symphony Hall, Birmingham) by the Mariinsky Orchestra and Opera under the direction of maestro Valery Gergiev
Keywords: Black & White, Figurative, Pen & Ink, Stylized, Animals, Fantasy, Historical, Political, Vintage / Retro, Masculine
© Neale Osborne