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ARTIST: Renato Guttuso (Italy, 1912-1987)

TITLE OF WORK: Mask design for the ballet "Sei danze per Demetra" (Six dances for Demeter): Four Propitiators (Quatro propitiatori)

TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color

DATE: 1958

COMMENTS: "Sei danze per Demetra" (Six dances for Demeter), a ballet choreographed by Aurel Milloss, music by Angelo Musco; first presented at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo on 05/03/1958.

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy, Palermo, Greece

DANCE FORM: classical ballet

KEYWORDS: scenery, mask, costume