The Art of Ballets Russes: The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
by Schouvaloff, Alexander
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- VG-. edge-wear to covers; rubbing to corners; rubbing to spine ends. scuffs & scratches to back cover. scuffs & marks to lower t
- ISBN 10
- 0918333113
- ISBN 13
- 9780918333117
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Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997. Softcover. VG-. edge-wear to covers; rubbing to corners; rubbing to spine ends. scuffs & scratches to back cover. scuffs & marks to lower textblock. index pgs have instances of small, pink marker dots; pgs have light edge-toning, otherwise, clean.. illustrated wraps w/ gilt printing. 352 pp. 220 color plates. Includes Boris Anisfeldt, Leon Bakst, Andre Bauchant, Alexandre Benois, Christian Berard, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Naum Gabo, Jaun Gris, Joan Miro, Nikolai Roerich, Jose-Maria Sert, Dimitri Stelletsky, Pavel Tschelitchew - and many others. The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Serge Lifar, the last great protege dancer of famed Russian ballet producer Serge Diaghilev, collected paintings, set designs, and costume designs from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and from his own later productions at the Paris Opera. In 1933 Lifar's European dance company met financial disaster on tour in the United States, and Lifar was forced to sell his collection to pay for return fires for his troupe. The $10,000 he received from the Wadsworth Atheneum's flamboyant and imaginative director A. Everett "Chick" Austin was considered extravagant at the time. This collection, recognized as invaluable evidence of the emergence of modernism in theater and in Western art, is today unrivaled as a comprehensive documentation of the Ballets Russes. This catalogue presents the 188 works of art and thirty-two costumes that compose the Serge Lifar Collection. It has been enlarged since 1933, most notably with the 1996 acquisition of original costumes. Most of the set and costume designs and all of the costumes were made for thirty-seven Ballet Russes productions, from the first in 1909 to the last in 1929.
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- Title
- The Art of Ballets Russes: The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Author
- Schouvaloff, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-. edge-wear to covers; rubbing to corners; rubbing to spine ends. scuffs & scratches to back cover. scuffs & marks to lower t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0918333113
- ISBN 13
- 9780918333117
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Theater / Ballet ; Serge Lifar Collection; Ballets Russes ; ;
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