Costume design by George Kirsta for a dancer in the Carnival (Galop) in Bronislava Nijinska's ballet The Beloved One (La bien aimee), produced by the Markova Dolin Ballet, 1937

Full length featureless female figure (indication only of back leg) wearing an Asian-inspired costume with long sleeved low cut red brown bodice decorated edged in gold, with gold coins at neck, palest orange yellow cummerbund trimmed gold with gold fringe, palest orange yellow harem pants with gold decoration down sides, and palest orange yellow veil edged gold fixed to small pill box hat in dark red brown spotted gold. To top right a drawing of a mask with annotations in Russian. Pencil, watercolour and gold paint. Annotated, signed and dated.

Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest

This costume was designed by George Kirsta for a dancer in the Carnival (Galop) 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".

S.196-2000