Apr 11, 2011
Boris Kochno (top left) and Serge Diaghilev; Kochno, Paulo Picasso, and Diaghilev (top right); Olga Khokhlova and Diaghilev (bottom left); Kochno, Diaghilev, and Paulo Picasso (bottom right). Serge Grigoriev/Ballets Russes Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress
Serge Grigoriev (1883–1968), rehearsal director for the Ballets Russes between 1909 and 1929, compiled a series of photograph albums that show the company rehearsing, performing, and relaxing. This page of snapshots, taken by Grigoriev in Monte Carlo in 1928, includes Diaghilev and his artistic collaborator Boris Kochno (1904–1990); the artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and his son Paulo (1921–1975), and Picasso’s first wife, the dancer Olga Khokhlova (1891–1955).