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Costume Design

1937 (Drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Full length featureless male figure wearing Tyrolean style costume with a blue grey collarless jacket with gold buttons down the front and at cuff, buttoned at the waist, pink red necktie, knee breeches with decoration down the outer thigh and small Tyrolean hat with gold feather. Pencil, watercolour and gold paint.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, gold paint and pencil on paper
Brief description
Costume design by George Kirsta for five Peasants in Bronislava Nijinska's balletThe Beloved One (La bien aimee), produced by the Markova Dolin Ballet, 1937.
Physical description
Full length featureless male figure wearing Tyrolean style costume with a blue grey collarless jacket with gold buttons down the front and at cuff, buttoned at the waist, pink red necktie, knee breeches with decoration down the outer thigh and small Tyrolean hat with gold feather. Pencil, watercolour and gold paint.
Dimensions
  • Height: 334mm
  • Width: 251mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • "4." (Upper left hand corner; Handwriting; Watercolour)
  • "La bien aimee / 5 Peasants" (Textual information; French; Lower left hand corner; Handwriting; Watercolour)
    Translation
    The Beloved One
  • "George Kirsta / 1937" (Signature; date; Lower right hand corner; Handwriting; Watercolour)
  • "Dooning / Miss Burnett Miss / Hargreaves / x Kelly / Miss Bergmayer girl / 5 peasants." (Textual information; Reverse; Handwriting; Pencil; Unknown)
  • "Wigs" (Textual information; Upper right hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil)
Credit line
Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest
Object history
This costume was designed by George Kirsta for Anton Dolin as the Poet in Bronislava Nijinska's ballet "The Beloved One" which she mounted for the Markova-Dolin Ballet in 1937 (she had choreographed the ballet for the Ida Rubinstein company in 1928). The design came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest and was probably acquired by him as illustration for his various publications on design for the ballet - of the seventeen costume designs for this ballet in his collection two and one set design were reproduced in Beaumont's "Design for the Ballet".
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.184-2000

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Record createdDecember 18, 2000
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