TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Night on Bald Mountain": Bronislava Nijinska
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1925
COMMENTS: Ballet "La nuit sur le Mont Chauve" (Night on Bald Mountain), the third act from the opera "La foire de Sorotchintzi" originally choreographed by Nijinska for the Ballets Russes in 1925. MUisc by Mode
COMMENTS: The artist saw the ballet by the Sisters Wiesenthal in Vienna in 1910, and was inspired for her statuette "Buttefly". Most probably the same spectacle was the source for this work
TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loie Fuller and her transformations II: At rest, The propeller, At rest (Mademoiselle Loïe Fuller et ses transformations II: Au repos, L'hélice, Au repos)
TITLE OF WORK: Valide Sultana watching two female dancers and two little jugglers
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
DATE: 1689
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Valide Sultana was the most powerful woman in the imperial harem. This work was commissionned by Madame Girardin, wife of the French ambassador to the Sublime Porte
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,