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Theatre Costume

ca. 1913 (made)
Artist/Maker

Costume for An Ancestor in scene 2 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps designed by Nicholas Roerich, Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1913. Full length robe of off white flannelette with wool hip insert and bright red underarm gussets, decorated at neck, elbow, wrist and hem with geometric shapes in yellow, reddish orange, highlighted with magenta. Missing the metal discs at front neck.

Narrow leather belt with hanging silver painted wooden 'dagger' in a 'sheath' and socks of coarse off white linen.

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Brief description
Costume for an Ancestor in scene 2 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps designed by Nicholas Roerich, Diaghilev Ballet, 1913.
Physical description
Costume for An Ancestor in scene 2 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps designed by Nicholas Roerich, Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1913. Full length robe of off white flannelette with wool hip insert and bright red underarm gussets, decorated at neck, elbow, wrist and hem with geometric shapes in yellow, reddish orange, highlighted with magenta. Missing the metal discs at front neck.

Narrow leather belt with hanging silver painted wooden 'dagger' in a 'sheath' and socks of coarse off white linen.
Dimensions
  • Length: 1505mm
  • Width: 490mm
  • Weight: 0.8kg
Collection
Accession number
S.684-1980

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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