TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les biches": Two Women
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1924
COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
TITLE OF WORK: The dance at Zalongo (O choros tou Zalogou)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1929
DIMENSIONS: 74.5 x 165.5 cm
COMMENTS: According to a tradition, women from the mountainous region of Souli, in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, were surrounded by Turkish troops in Zalogo. Rather than surrender, they started to sing and dance
ARTIST: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby (U.K., 1825-1896) (sketch); A. Forestier (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Quaint performance at a savage entertainment. Sketches in the island of Formosa
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1890
DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 23.6 cm
COMMENTS: Region of Takow, on the south-west shore of Formosa. Sketched in Bankimsing, a Papuhuan village at the foot of the mountains, where a Spanish missionary had lived over thirty years.One elderly chief,
TITLE OF WORK: The silver wedding of the Imperial Prince and Princess of Germany. The old German quadrille
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1883
DIMENSIONS: 14.8 x 22.4 cm
COMMENTS: The English Quadrille was followed by a German Quadrille, executed by ladies and gentlemen in the costume of the thirty Years' War time, both music and step being of a lively waltzing nature, in direc
TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein in "Schéhérazade"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
DATE: 1913
COMMENTS: "L'oiseau de feu" (Fire-bird): choreographic drama in one act, created at the Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris on 04/06/1910. Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, argument by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine, choreograph
TITLE OF WORK: Four dancer at the foyer (Quatre danseuses au foyer de la danse)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on joined paper
DATE: 1898
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 47.6 x 60 cm
COMMENTS: Signed. Brame & Reff catalogue no. 148. There other versions of this composition, executed between 1897 and 1900: Lemoisne catalogue nos. 1294, 1307 and 1368.