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Set Design

1937 (Drawn)
Artist/Maker
Kirsta, George (Set designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Inner stage with sketched in steps and rostrum, the top border extending beyond (left side Conservation replacement) painted with, to the left, clouds set with gold stars and gold lyre, merging into a reddish brown shaded black festooned curtain. Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Dance
Designs
Object type
Set design
Materials and techniques
Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint on paper.
Watercolour
Gold Paint
Gouache
Pencil
Paper
Drawing (Image Making)
Brief description
Design by George Kirsta for top border in Bronislava Nijinska's ballet The Beloved One (La bien aimee), produced by the Markova Dolin Ballet, 1937. Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint.
Physical description
Inner stage with sketched in steps and rostrum, the top border extending beyond (left side Conservation replacement) painted with, to the left, clouds set with gold stars and gold lyre, merging into a reddish brown shaded black festooned curtain. Pencil, watercolour, gouache and gold paint.
Dimensions
  • At centre height: 359mm
  • At upper edge width: 480mm
  • At lower edge width: 307mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • "Bien aimee" (Textual information; French; Lower edge; Handwriting; Watercolour; 1937)
    Translation
    Beloved One
  • "George Kirsta / 1937" (Signature; date; Lower right hand corner of design; Handwriting; Watercolour)
  • "Guy Massey (Carnaval)" (Textual information; Reverse; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • Sketch of evening jacket, waistcoat and shirt front (Reverse centre; Drawing (image-making); Pencil)
Credit line
Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest
Object history
This set piece was designed by George Kirsta for 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
Theatre Set
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.201-2000

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2001
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O52824/set-design-kirsta-george/
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