Howard D. Rothschild collection on of Serge Diaghilev, Ballets Russes 1909-1956 (inclusive), 1909-1914 (bulk).

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956

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Marie Laurencin was born in Paris on 31 October 1883. She attended the Lycee Lamartine in the city before studying porcelain painting at the Sevres factory. Later on she entered the Academie Humbert. In 1907 she exhibited at the Clovis Sagot gallery in Montmartre, and there she was introduced to Guillaume Apollinaire by Pablo Picasso and she became romatically involved with Apollinaire until 1913. In 1908, Laurencin achieved her first sale when Gertrude Stein purchased Group...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957

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Russian-born painter, set designer, and costume designer, Pavel Tchelitchew emigrated in 1920. He lived in Berlin (1921-23) and Paris (1923-34) before moving to New York, where he lived with his partner Charles Henri Ford. He became a United States citizen in 1952 and died in Grottaferrata, Italy in 1957. Tchelitchew's early painting was abstract in style, described as Constructivist and Futurist and influenced by his study with Aleksandra Ekster in Kiev. After emigrating to Paris ...

Hugo, Valentine, 1887-1968

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French artist, author, and surrealist. From the description of Valentine Hugo Papers, 1872-1968. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 85242169 Valentine Hugo was a painter and designer whose works employed dream-like imagery. She illustrated some literary works by the Surrealists, such as Paul Eluard's Hommes et Bêtes. Crevel was a Surrealist poet and artist. From the description of Letters received,...

Diaghilev, Serge

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Rain, Charles, 1911-

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Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924

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Russian artist. From the description of Léon Bakst autograph letter to unidentified recipient, 1922 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 528674978 Ballet, theater and opera designer, and artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was born in Grodno, Russia and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. Some of Bakst's best-known works were for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He died at his home in Paris. From the guide to the Leon Bakst designs, ca. 1911-1923, (The New...

Lifar, Serge.

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Serge Diaghilev

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Survage, Léopold (1879-1968).

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Leonid Massine

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Bronislava Nijinska

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Pavel Koribut-Kubitovich

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Maurice Ravel

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Leon Bakst

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Moiseiwitsch, Tanya, 1914-

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Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914- ), costume designer. From the description of Tanya Moiseiwitsch costume designs, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164190 From the guide to the Tanya Moiseiwitsch costume designs, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Epithet: theatrical designer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x000263 Tanya Moiseiwits...

Willoughby, Véra, -1939

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From the guide to the Vera Willoughby Papers, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Martin, Keith

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Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953

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French-born, naturalized English artist, illustrator, and composer. From the description of Edmund Dulac Collection, 1818, 1889-1948. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625030 Born in Toulouse, France, on 22 October 1882, Edmond Dulac was the only child of Pierre Henri Aristide Dulac and Marie Catherine Pauline Rieu. The boy grew up in a comfortable petit bourgeois home. Educated at the Lycée de...

White, Ethelbert, 1891-1972

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Waslaw Nijinsky

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Rip, George Thenon

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Mikhail Larionov

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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Nikitina, Alice

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Fruhauf, Aline, 1909-1978

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Caricaturist and lithographer. Date of birth also given as 1907. From the description of Aline Fruhauf papers, 1926-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82988032 ...

Leonide Massine

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Peggy Cochran

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Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 1861-1942

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French Post-impressionist painter and author. From the description of Letter, 1927 Apr. 2. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84286742 French painter and art critic. From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1886-1937. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81379815 ...

Musée des Artes décoratifs (France)

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Nataliia Goncharova

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Spessivtseva

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Gris, Juan, 1887-1927

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Spanish painter and lithographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870925 Spanish painter. From the description of Letters sent by Juan Gris, 1918-1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79630325 ...

Petrova, Vera

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Serge Lifar

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Pruna, Pere, 1904-1977

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Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich, 1874-1947.

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Rothschild, Howard D. 1907-1989

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Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and a major American collector of artwork related to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He developed a passion for the Ballets Russes after Waslaw Nijinsky withdrew from a performance during the company's tour of America in 1916 attended by Rothschild when a child. The collection was amassed by purchase and by gift from the dancers and artists with whom Rothschild developed friendships. Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was a Russian...

Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977

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Naum Gabo, born Naum Borisovich Pevsner, was a Russian sculptor. Gabo was educated in Russia and Munich before emigrating to Scandinavia in 1915. He then lived in Russia (1917-1922), Germany (19322-1932), France (1932-1935), and England (1936-1946) before emigrating to the United States in 1946 and settling in Connecticut. Gabo is known for his ties to the Constructivist movement. Gabo died in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1977. From the guide to the Naum Gabo papers, 1920-1980, (Beinec...

Sergey Prokofiev

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Lydia Lopokova

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Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960

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Russian stage designer, director, and art historian. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Paris, 12 December 1933], to M.D. Calvocoressi in London, [1933 Dec. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873163 ...

A. Tcherkessoff.

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Morris, David, 1966-

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Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna, 1881-1962

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Russian avant-garde painter and designer for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Costume design, 1914? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 758880073 Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna Goncharova attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1901-1909), where she studied sculpture. Goncharova was one of the organizers of the first Jack of Diamonds exhibition (1910) and of the later Donkey Tail exhibition (1912), among others. In 1914...

Olga Picasso

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Lydia Sokolova

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De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978

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Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verita (essay), ca. 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81610064 Greek-born Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870147 ...

Rothschild, Howard D.

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Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and an art collector. From the description of Howard D. Rothschild papers, 1921-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612840274 Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and a major collector of art work related to Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes. His fascination with Ballets Russes began in 1915 when as a child he attended one of the company's performances in New York. Over the years he became a close friend and an anonymous ...

Anisfeld, Boris Israelevich, 1879-1973

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Born in Russia, Anisfeld was a sculptor, painter, and set designer. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1901-1909) and was involved with book design and illustration before changing his course of study to stage design. In 1911, Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe asked him to design the ballet production of Sadko . Anisfeld created designs for the New York Metropolitan Opera, including The Snow Maiden in 1922. He also taught at the Chicago Art Institute. From the gui...

Thomas, Louis, 1885-

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Tamara Karsavina

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Mikhail Fedorov

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Sketch

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Ida Rubinstein

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A. A. Tcherkessoff

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Karalli, Vera Alekseevna, 1889-1972

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Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich, 1881-1964

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Russian-born artist and stage designer, who co-founded the avant-garde Rayonist movement with Natalia Goncharova, in 1910. The couple relocated to Paris in 1914 and became primary designers for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Letter, signed : Monte-Carlo, Monaco, to Natalia Goncharova, 30 April 1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68916791 ...

Enrico Cecchetti

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Isadora Duncan

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Miró, Joan, 1893-1983

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Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Mallorca, to John Rewald, 1971 Dec. 26 and 1972 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871537 French painter. From the description of Aidez l'Espagne (poster), 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83814624 ...

Guillaume Appolinaire

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Jones, Robert Edmund

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Robert Edmond Jones was born in 1887, and spent his career as a theater set designer. He also worked on the production of early Technicolor films as a color consultant. As a stage designer, Jones is best known for his simplified sets that complemented the action of a production and his dramatic use of color in costuming and lighting. From the description of Robert Edmond Jones papers, 1916 - 1963. (Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 299159602 Jones graduated from Harv...

Karsavina, Tamara

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Pablo Picasso

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Derain, André, 1880-1954

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French painter. From the description of Manuscript essay, ca. 1900. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82375373 From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Chambourg, to John Rewald, 1952 Aug. 4-1953 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870656 ...