Ballets Russes

1) Programme officiel des Ballets Russes...septième saison russe, Paris: Théâtre du Châtelet, Mai-Juin 1912, colour portrait of Nijinsky by Bakst to cover, 10 colour plates after Bakst for "Le Dieu Bleu", "Daphnis & Chloé" and "L'après-midi d'un faune", one after Lepape of Nijinsky in "Petrushka", photographic portraits of  Karsavina, Nijinska, Mary Christian, Nellidoff and others, programmes for "L'oiseau de feu" with Karsavina, "Le Dieu bleu" with Nijinsky etc, fine gilt paper wrapper illustrating "Le Dieu bleu", some spotting -- 2) Programme officiel...Onzième saison russe, Théâtre de l'Opéra, Décembre 1919, Janvier-Février 1920; coloured cover after Picasso for "Tricorne" (Falla's "The Three-Cornered Hat"), 4 plates after Picasso (of "Danseuses", Massine, "Tricorne", Derain), 2 colour plates by Derain, and 2 by Bakst, photographic portraits of Manuel de Falla, Karsavina & Massine, Tchernicheva, programmes for "Papillons", "Tricorne" etc -- 3) Ballet Russes...seizième saison, Gaité lyrique, Juin 1923, portraits of Stravinsky, Nijinska (by Man Ray), designs by Goncharova and Picasso, programmes for "Le sacre du printemps", "Les Noces" [first public performance] and "Petrushka"-- 4) Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew, Juin 1925, designs by Pruna, photographic portraits, coloured wrapper by Pruna-- 5) XXIe saison de Ballets Russes, Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, 1928, portraits of Danilova & Massine, Tchernicheva, Nikitina, Markova and Lifar, with programmes for Prokofiev's "Le Pas d'acier", "Apollon musagète" [the European première], blue wrapper by Tchelichev--6) Festival Richard Wagner, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Juin 1929, no. 2559 of 3000, 9 colour plates after Egon Wilden, together with issues of La Danse (June 1923; November-December 1924),

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These Ballet Russes booklets include those published for the first productions of Debussy's L'après-midi d'un faune, Ravel's Daphnis et chloé and Stravinsky's Les Noces. The illustrations in the first item include some from the première of Petrushka staged at the Châtelet the previous year.