25 March 2023
C. W. Beaumont, Design for the Ballet, London, The Studio, 1937, 29 by 21 cm, 152 pages, with approximately 100 illustrations, some in colour and some mounted on card, with costume designs by, among others, Annenkov, Bakst, Benois, Derain, Dobuzhinsky, Dufy, Fedorovsky, Goncharova, Masson, Miro and Picasso.
200-300 GBP
A lavishly illustrated book on the history of the Ballet Russe, with a list of ballet designers, ballet companies, composers, choreographers and performances covering the period from the Imperial Russian Ballet to the Soviet Ballet.
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