Costume Design
1937 (Drawn)
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Full length featureless male figure (indication only of back leg) wearing grey shaded black tunic with gold decoration on lower chest and below waistband, white rounded collar edged gold with gold and black oval at centre front, large puffed sleeves to elbow and fitted lower sleeves. The knee breeches are grey shaded black with gold garters. From the right shoulder is a short cape in pale claret. The costume iw worn with white gauntlets edged gold and a small black hat, trimmed white at the front, with massed pale purple ostrich plumes to the right. Pencil, watercolour and gold paint. Annotated, signed and dated. On reverse a drawing of an evening suit (upper body only).
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 a dancer in the Carnival in Bronislava Nijinska's ballet The Beloved One (La bien aimee), produced by the Markova Dolin Ballet, 1937. |
| Physical description | Full length featureless male figure (indication only of back leg) wearing grey shaded black tunic with gold decoration on lower chest and below waistband, white rounded collar edged gold with gold and black oval at centre front, large puffed sleeves to elbow and fitted lower sleeves. The knee breeches are grey shaded black with gold garters. From the right shoulder is a short cape in pale claret. The costume iw worn with white gauntlets edged gold and a small black hat, trimmed white at the front, with massed pale purple ostrich plumes to the right. Pencil, watercolour and gold paint. Annotated, signed and dated. On reverse a drawing of an evening suit (upper body only). |
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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 a dancer in the Carnival 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.198-2000 |
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| Record created | December 19, 2000 |
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