COMMENTS: In the center, the subject is a country dance derived from the ball in the painting "The Happy Marriage". The couple on the left are separated a little to elucidate their elegance in contrast with the
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde"
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
DATE: 1923
COMMENTS: "La création du monde", a ballet by Blaise Cendrars for the Ballets Suédois. Music by Darius Milhaud; curtain, sets and costumes by Fernand Léger; sets painted by Marcel Guérin; choreography by Jean B
COMMENTS: Matfré Ermengau, a franciscan monk from Béziers who died in 1322, illustrates how the devils lead to sin. They lead the knights to banquet avec the ladies, then to joust for them, to dance, to tell th