68. [BALLETS RUSSES, BLANC, DE CHIRICO, TCHELITCHEV]
The 22nd Season Ballets Russes, 14 performances des Ballets Russes, Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1929.
beginning
25th October 2017, 17:00Starting price
€ 500
Program: Les Facheux (with L. Tchernisheva, V. Petrova, S. Lifar), Renard (with L. Woizikovsky), Le Fils Prodigue (with S. Lifar, M. Fedorov, A. Dolin), Danses Polovtsiennes from opera Prince Igor (with L. Tchernisheva, V. Petrova, L. Woizikowsky).
Les Publications Willy Fischer, L´Édition Artistique, Paris.
31,5 x 24,5 cm; [28, 4] pp.: ill. Saddle stitch binding. Laid paper wrappers, protected with transparent paper leaf. Coated stock text block.
Pochoir by de Kiriko on the front cover. The edition contains full-page portrait of Sergej Lifar by Tchelitchev and numerous photographs of dancers, including L. Sokolova, A. Dolin, A. Danilova, N. Kremnev (these photographs by BLANC).
Inserted douple-sided program on May 21, 1929 printed on Ingres paper leaf with watermarks: Les Facheux, Renard, Le Fils Prodigue, Danses Polovtsiennes from Prince Igor.
Inserted 8 newspaper clippings about de Chirico, one of them dated 1954.
Wrappers are slightly age browned, otherwise very good condition.