TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Pastorale"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and watercolor on paper
DATE: 1926
COMMENTS: "Pastorale", ballet by the Ballets Russes, 1926. Music by G. auric; story by Boris Kochno; choreography by B. Nijinska - interlude by Balanchine; décors, curtain and costumes by Pedro Pruna
TITLE OF WORK: A pleasure boat on the Sumida River. Triptych of colour woodblock prints
TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, wood
DATE: 1786
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Circa 1875-8. Edo Period. Torii Kiyonaga was one of the most accomplished of Ukiyoe artists and eventually headed the Torii school of artists
TITLE OF WORK: A dancing girl; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Portraits of celebrities of the Persian Court
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper
DATE: 1830
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 18 cm
COMMENTS: Dancing girl with hennaed hands holding a bottle and a cup. Wearing an orange skirt, red slippers, red and white striped tunic, feathered headdress and red shawl with gold piping that covers her head
COMMENTS: Detail of a "urne funéraire" from the necropolis of Chiusi. This relief shows that in Camars (Clusium) worked sculptors possesing superior techniques, influenced by the Greek Ionian art.
