London Festival Ballet
Poster
1980 (made)
1980 (made)
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Poster advertising London Festival Ballet's 30th anniversary season at the London Coliseum, 4 March - 5 April 1980.
This poster is unusual as the photographer, Anthony Crickmay, disliked any intervention with his images and the image of Petrouchka has been hand coloured on a black and white photograph. Petrouchka was a significant ballet for London Festival Ballet:they had been the first British company to mount the work in 1950 and had restaged it on a number of occasions.
Anthony Crickmay began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance.
This poster is unusual as the photographer, Anthony Crickmay, disliked any intervention with his images and the image of Petrouchka has been hand coloured on a black and white photograph. Petrouchka was a significant ballet for London Festival Ballet:they had been the first British company to mount the work in 1950 and had restaged it on a number of occasions.
Anthony Crickmay began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance.
Object details
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| Title | London Festival Ballet (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printing ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising London Festival Ballet's 30th anniversary season at the London Coliseum, 4 March - 5 April 1980 |
| Physical description | Photographic and typographic poster with bold lettering at the top announcing London Festival Ballet's 30th Anniversary Season at the London Coliseum, 3 March - 5 April1980. Below is a photographic image of a leaping Petrouchka, danced by Peter Schafuss. The lettering is in white, yellow and orange and these colours are used on the cap and trousers worn by Petrouchka in an otherwise black and white photograph by Anthony Crickmay. The background for the poster is blue. |
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| Summary | Poster advertising London Festival Ballet's 30th anniversary season at the London Coliseum, 4 March - 5 April 1980. This poster is unusual as the photographer, Anthony Crickmay, disliked any intervention with his images and the image of Petrouchka has been hand coloured on a black and white photograph. Petrouchka was a significant ballet for London Festival Ballet:they had been the first British company to mount the work in 1950 and had restaged it on a number of occasions. Anthony Crickmay began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance. |
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| Accession number | S.1224-1994 |
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| Record created | July 23, 2010 |
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