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Sold at Auction: Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova (70+) vintage glass plate camera negatives.
Margot Fonteyn's Costume From `ondine', Designed B
Margot Fonteyn's costume from `Ondine' designed by Lila De Nobili, 1958~Image via Kerry Taylor Auctions
Fashion History 101
1912 costumes by Leon Bakst who was a Russian painter. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly colored sets and costumes.
Diana Adams
Diana Adams (1926-1993) - c. 1950's - Principal dancer for the New York City Ballet - @~ Mlle
Ballets Russes Centennial | The Brooklyn Rail
Felia Doubrovska in the title role of the Ballet Russes' "Firebird", 1926~Photo courtesy ofJerome Robbins Dance Division
Vera Fokina and Mikhail Fokin in the ballet ‘Scheherazade’, Stockholm, 1914. Ballet Russe. Costumes by Baskt
Ballet d'Edgar Degas (Musée d'Orsay)
Edgar Degas was fascinated with the movement of dance and over half of his paintings are focused on this subject matter. Prima Ballerina is from 1876-77. http://www.edgar-degas.org/
The Arts Desk
Mikhail Larionov design for the Buffoon's Wife in 'Chout' (1921). Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929, V
Léon Bakst, Costume for a nymph, c.1912. Silk chiffon, lamé, metallic ribbon, cotton centre back 90.0 h cm. Ballets russes de Serge Diaghilev
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Ballet Russes - Tatiana Ryaboushinskaya as Golden Cockerel in 1938 - projected shadows as set design