MacDougall Auctions 27 November 2006
27 November 2006
240. C. W. BEAUMONT, DESIGN FOR THE BALLET
The Studio Limited, London 1937, 152 pp, 29 by 21 cm.
2,000-3,000 Pounds
A lavishly illustrated book on the history of the Ballet Russe, with a list of ballet designers, ballet companies, composers, choreographers, performances covering the period from the Imperial Russian Ballet to the Soviet Ballet. 152 pages of text with approximately 100 illustrations of costume designs.
Plain and coloured illustrations, some mounted on card, after designs including by Annenkov, Bakst, Benois, Benois, Derain, Dobuzhinsky, Dufy, Fedorovsky, Goncharova, Masson, Miro, Picasso and Rabinovich. Original cover.
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