The Russian Ballet in Western Europe 1909–1920
Walter Archibald Propert|Eugene Goossens|Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov|Jacques-Emile Blanche|Pablo Picasso|Glyn Warren Philpot|Jacques-Emile Blanche|Léon Bakst|Alexander Benois|André Derain|Ivan Fedorovsky|Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin|Natalia Goncharova|Mikhail Larionov|Henri Matisse|Pablo Picasso|Nicholas Roerich|Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov|José Maria Sert Y Badia|Sergej Jur'evic Sondeikine|Natalia Goncharova|John Lane, The Bodley Head|John Lane
1921 · Illustrations: photomechanical reproductions and color lithographs · Drawings and Prints
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes was celebrated thus, that it became part of history while it was still very much alive. In 1920, the New York gallery Knoedler & Co. organized exhibitions of the designs of Leon Bakst, and a first retrospective of the Russian Ballet in Western Europe was published in London in 1921. Celebrated in particular was the company’s ability to transport its audiences to a world of fantasy and wonderment. This experience was greatly welcomed at a time when Europe and the United States were recovering from the devastation of World War I (1914-18), as captured in this quote from this publication: ‘We have our despair, our sadness, our violated love and this thing, most dread of all – the passing of the days between our hands (…). But in the Spring, the Russian Ballets and Nijinski return. And all is forgotten.’
- Artist
- Walter Archibald Propert|Eugene Goossens|Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov|Jacques-Emile Blanche|Pablo Picasso|Glyn Warren Philpot|Jacques-Emile Blanche|Léon Bakst|Alexander Benois|André Derain|Ivan Fedorovsky|Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin|Natalia Goncharova|Mikhail Larionov|Henri Matisse|Pablo Picasso|Nicholas Roerich|Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov|José Maria Sert Y Badia|Sergej Jur'evic Sondeikine|Natalia Goncharova|John Lane, The Bodley Head|John Lane
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- Illustrations: photomechanical reproductions and color lithographs
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Estate of Jane Erdmann Whitney, 1986
