#ballets russes

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Léon Bakst (1866 - 1924) (designer), Marie Muelle (costumier), Costume for a brigand, c.1912

For the Ballets Russes.

Tunic: wool, cotton, metal, plastic fastener, paint Breeches: wool, cotton, plastic, metal fasteners Belt: wool, cotton, metal fasteners Cloak: wool, paint

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Costume for 'Cléopâtre' in the Ballets Russes production of 'Cléopâtre' 

Sonia Delaunay-Terk 

1918

LACMA

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Ida Rubinstein dressed as Zobeide in the ballet Scheharazade (1922) by Jacques-Émile Blanche. Houghton Library.

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Art Deco - Wilfred Wong by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine

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Some ballets russes drawings because the obsession is getting stronger again

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Vaslav Nijinsky

1. As the rose in Le spectre de la rose

2. As the golden slave in Shéhérazade

3. As the faun in L'après-midi d'un faune

And 4. Tamara Karsavina in Shéhérazade

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Bassano Studio, Londres. Antoine Dolin dans le rôle du Beau Gosse dans Le Train Bleu, 1924.

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Adolf de Meyer

1910

Nijinsky as Harlequin in Carnaval

Paris

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Ukrainian ballet star Igor Youskevitch in Le Carnaval, photographed while on tour in Australia between 1936 and 1937. By Max Dupain.