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The Firebird

Set Design
ca. 1954 (made)
Artist/Maker

Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of <i>The Firebird</i>, Sadler's Wells Ballet. The revival of The Firebird was staged for a Ballets Russes tribute programme at Edinburgh Festival on 23 August 1954. This was in conjunction with the events to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Diaghilev and the demise of his company. Goncharova essentially recreates her design for the 1926 but the architecture of her ‘Kremlin’, walled city with gilded church domes is more symmetrical than in the Ballets Russes design.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Firebird (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, watercolour, red crayon and gouache on card
Brief description
Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of The Firebird, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Edinburgh Festival,1954
Physical description
Design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of The Firebird, showing a stylized Russian city of towers and minarets with onion domes, painted in shades of red, blue and ochre, rising above a grey castellated wall with swallowtail battlements. Signed, lower right hand side.
Dimensions
  • Height: 36.8cm
  • Width: 52cm
Credit line
Given by the Arts Council of Great Britain
Summary
Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of <i>The Firebird</i>, Sadler's Wells Ballet. The revival of The Firebird was staged for a Ballets Russes tribute programme at Edinburgh Festival on 23 August 1954. This was in conjunction with the events to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Diaghilev and the demise of his company. Goncharova essentially recreates her design for the 1926 but the architecture of her ‘Kremlin’, walled city with gilded church domes is more symmetrical than in the Ballets Russes design.
Collection
Accession number
S.1911-1986

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Record createdMay 12, 2011
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