ARTIST: Charles Maurand (France, 1824-1904) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball given by Her Majesty the Empress, on Monday 9 February - Ballet of the Bees (Bal costumé donné pas Sa Majesté l'Impératrice, le lundi 9 fevrier - Le ballet des abeilles)
TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "That is the show"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1971
COMMENTS: "That is the show", ballet on music by Bario, design by Nadine Baylis, lighting by J. B. Read, choreography by Morrice; first performance by the Ballet Rambert at the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, Londo
TITLE OF WORK: The Lion of Belfort. Mud (Le lion de Belfort. La boue)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1934
COMMENTS: From the collage-novel "Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux". Premier cahier. Dimanche - Elémemt : La boue. Exemple : Le lion de Belfort
COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score. Dedicated to Madame Constanze Sulkowska, dramatic artist at the Lemberg Theater, bu the composer Simon Robert Okulski
ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the opera "Le rossignol" (The nightingale): Fisherman
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
DATE: 1914
COMMENTS: "Le rossignol", opera by the Balets Russes. Music by I. Stravinsky after a tale by Andersen; choreography by B. Romanov, scenery and costumes by A. Benois. In 1916 the opera was presented with scenery
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, China
TITLE OF WORK: Nasturtiums and "The Dance" (Capucines et "La danse")
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1912
DIMENSIONS: 190.5 x 114 cm
COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Henri Matisse". In the summer of 1912 Matisse painted two variations on this theme; the other one is in the Worcester Museum, U.S.A. He chose anohter one of his paintings ("La d
TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of wordly and otherwordly drunkenness
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, illumination, manuscipt, opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
DATE: 1526
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 21.6 cm
COMMENTS: Leaf from a manuscript of a "Divan" of Hafiz (1325-1389/1390), folio 137r, Iran (Safavid period), Tabriz. Inscribed (above the doorway on the left): "The work of Sultan Muhammad Iraqi" (that is, of we