Stage Design For Le Coq D’or 1912

This is Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin’s stage design for Le Coq D’or, but when? What year did he make this? I am curious about what kind of brush he used. How did he hold it? It’s all in the wrist; it’s all in the arm! It looks like the kind of painting that might have emerged from pure improvisation, a series of intuitive, playful moves. What a feeling to conjure up a scene in a few strokes. I can imagine the artist lost in the moment, each stroke adding to the drama, working and reworking it, building up the layers. See how the figures emerge from a network of colorful marks? I bet you could lose yourself in those details. Like looking at a map. For me, painting is an ongoing conversation, each piece adding to a larger story.