Not on display

Poster

1983 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photographic and typographic. Poster fixed to board backing in production process. Abstract head shot only, in the form of a blown-up half-tone photograph. The same image is used on S.1131-1996.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printing ink on paper
Brief description
Poster advertising Rudolf Nureyev in the ballets Songs of a Wayfarer, The Lesson and Pierrot Lunaire at the Uris Theatre, New York, 1 March to 20 March 1983
Physical description
Photographic and typographic. Poster fixed to board backing in production process. Abstract head shot only, in the form of a blown-up half-tone photograph. The same image is used on S.1131-1996.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 55.8cm
  • Poster width: 35.6cm
Credit line
From the Sander Gorlinsky Collection presented to the Theatre Museum by Edith Gorlinsky
Object history
Associated Production: Songs of a Wayfarer (composer: Gustav Mahler, choreographer: Maurice Bejart), The Lesson (author of original play: Ionesco, choreographer: Vivi Flindt), Pierrot Lunaire (composer: Schoenberg, choreographer: Glen Tetley). Dancers: Rudolf Nureyev, Vivi Flindt, Johnny Eliasen, Anne Marie Vessel. Uris Theatre, 222, West 51st Street, New York, USA. 1.3.1983 - 20.3.1983. Performance category: dance, ballet.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.1117-1996

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Record createdAugust 3, 2010
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