Posed photograph taken on stage at the London Coliseum during December 1924 against the backdrop of Baba Yaga designed by Mikhail Larionov of the quartet of principal dancers in Le Train bleu in their costumes, complete with appropriate footwear, designed by Coco Chanel.

Léon Woizikowsky holding a golf club is dressed as the Golfer was inspired by the Prince of Wales and his love for golf. Lydia Sokolova is the bathing bell La Perlouse, her costume completed by a bathing cap and ‘little rubber slippers which most women wore for bathing in those days’ which proved most uncomfortable to dance in. Bronislava Nijinska as the Tennis Player was modelled her role on Suzanne Lenglen who at the age of 15 had become the tennis champion of France and was singles and doubles champion at Wimbledon between 1919 and1924. Her ‘sensational leaps’ on court delighted her audiences. Anton Dolin was Le Beau Gosse or handsome boy, essentially played himself with his love of performing acrobatics.
Le Train bleu was set on a bathing beach and its action was inspired by fashionable sports. During the course of the ballet an unseen aeroplane flies overhead dropping pamphlets; the dancers put on sun glasses and they take photographs with box cameras. Cyril Beaumont in The Diaghilev Ballet in London (1940) noted that ‘The formalised setting, with a hint of cliffs, bathing tents, and seascape, was effective, but the costumes – mostly woollen bathing suits – were uninteresting’