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Theatre Costume

1913 (made)
Artist/Maker

Costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for a Woman (nicknamed 'the storks') in scene 1 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps 1913. Collarless jacket of off white flannelette with sleeves cut in one with the body and underarm gusset of orange cotton. The edges are trimmed with brown fur. The upper arm is decorated with a stencilled band of lines, circles and triangles in orange yellow, claret and mauve with a line; around the elbow is a row of mauve trefoils and orange ochre lozenges and magenta triangles below which is an orange ochre scalloped line. At the hem is a stencilled band of circles in mauve and pale yellow on orange yellow or mauve ground; above the band are mauve trefoils with orange yellow centres alternating with green ochre rectangular shapes and above a scalloped green ochre line.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Theatre Costume
  • Dance Costume
  • Jacket
  • Theatre Costume
  • Dance Costume
  • Hat
  • Theatre Costume
  • Dance Costume
  • Necklaces
Materials and techniques
flanelette and rabbit? fur
Brief description
Costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for a Woman in scene 1 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps fo Serge Diaghilev's Ballet's Russes, 1913.
Physical description
Costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for a Woman (nicknamed 'the storks') in scene 1 in Nijinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps 1913. Collarless jacket of off white flannelette with sleeves cut in one with the body and underarm gusset of orange cotton. The edges are trimmed with brown fur. The upper arm is decorated with a stencilled band of lines, circles and triangles in orange yellow, claret and mauve with a line; around the elbow is a row of mauve trefoils and orange ochre lozenges and magenta triangles below which is an orange ochre scalloped line. At the hem is a stencilled band of circles in mauve and pale yellow on orange yellow or mauve ground; above the band are mauve trefoils with orange yellow centres alternating with green ochre rectangular shapes and above a scalloped green ochre line.
Dimensions
  • Costume, collar to hem length: 82cm
  • Costume, across shoulders width: 55cm
  • Costume weight: 1.1kg
Collection
Accession number
S.653&B-1980

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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