Ballets Russes.

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Les Ballets Russes à Paris. Représentations Exceptionnelles avec le gracieux Concours des "Artistes de M. Serge Diaghilew". Paris: Théâtre du Châtelet, 1917, one coloured illustration after Picasso, coloured and plain illustrations of costumes by Picasso, Bakst and Larionov, original printed wrappers

Georges-Michel, Michel. Ballets Russes. Histoire anecdotique, suivie du poème de Shéhérazade. Paris: Editions du Monde Nouveau, 1923, 8vo, original wrappers, uncut, 2 short tears in upper wrapper

together 2 items, 4to & 8vo

Catalogue Note

Les Ballets Russes à Paris is a beautiful and sumptuously illustrated volume including costume designs for the ballets staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1917: Parade (choreography by Massine, music by Satie); Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (choreography by Massine, music by Scarlatti) and Contes Russes (choreography by Massine, music by Liadov).