Costume Design
1937 (Drawn)
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Full length featureless female figure wearing dress of palest orange yellow, with off the shoulder bodice trimmed with a white frill edged at the top and spotted to the right in gold, and a skirt knee-length at the front and calf length at the back trimmed on the right with gold spots; around the waist is a bold black shaded grey sash with long tails. The dress is worn with a small crowned curly-brimmed hat with ostrich feather and a pale grey spotted trailing trims nad fingerless net mittens. Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint. Annotated, signed and dated.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour, gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Costume design by George Kirsta for the Grisettes in Bronislava Nijinska's ballet La bien aimee, produced by the Markova Dolin Ballet, 1937. |
| Physical description | Full length featureless female figure wearing dress of palest orange yellow, with off the shoulder bodice trimmed with a white frill edged at the top and spotted to the right in gold, and a skirt knee-length at the front and calf length at the back trimmed on the right with gold spots; around the waist is a bold black shaded grey sash with long tails. The dress is worn with a small crowned curly-brimmed hat with ostrich feather and a pale grey spotted trailing trims nad fingerless net mittens. Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint. Annotated, signed and dated. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest |
| Object history | This costume was designed by George Kirsta for the Grisettes 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". |
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| Accession number | S.186-2000 |
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| Record created | December 19, 2000 |
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