Not currently on display at the V&A

Drawing

1924 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Study by George William Bissill of Anton Dolin in Le Train Bleu, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on millboard
Brief description
Study by George William Bissill of Anton Dolin and Lydia Sokolova in Le Train Bleu, Diaghilev Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924
Physical description
Study by George William Bissill showing Anton Dolin, left, in a striped one-piece bathing costume, balancing on his right hand as if diving, his face in profile, with a second figure in a bathing costume, standing right, and bathing huts to left and right. Mounted.
Dimensions
  • Drawing height: 38.2cm
  • Drawing width: 68cm
  • Mount height: 54cm
  • Mount width: 74.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bissill' (Artist's signature, lower left hand corner)
  • 'Dolin in / "Le Train Bleu".' (inscribed in ink, lower right hand corner)
Credit line
Given by Mr C.J. Gridley
Subject depicted
Summary
Study by George William Bissill of Anton Dolin in Le Train Bleu, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924.
Collection
Accession number
S.36-1976

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Record createdFebruary 20, 2013
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