The Firebird
Set Design
ca. 1954 (made)
ca. 1954 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of <i>The Firebird</i>, Sadler's Wells Ballet. The revival of The Firebird was staged for a Ballets Russes tribute programme at Edinburgh Festival on 23 August 1954. This was in conjunction with the events to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Diaghilev and the demise of his company. Goncharova essentially recreates her design for the 1926 but the architecture of her ‘Kremlin’, walled city with gilded church domes is more symmetrical than in the Ballets Russes design.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Firebird (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, watercolour, red crayon and gouache on card |
| Brief description | Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of The Firebird, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Edinburgh Festival,1954 |
| Physical description | Design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of The Firebird, showing a stylized Russian city of towers and minarets with onion domes, painted in shades of red, blue and ochre, rising above a grey castellated wall with swallowtail battlements. Signed, lower right hand side. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Arts Council of Great Britain |
| Summary | Set design by Natalia Goncharova for the backcloth in the final scene of <i>The Firebird</i>, Sadler's Wells Ballet. The revival of The Firebird was staged for a Ballets Russes tribute programme at Edinburgh Festival on 23 August 1954. This was in conjunction with the events to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Diaghilev and the demise of his company. Goncharova essentially recreates her design for the 1926 but the architecture of her ‘Kremlin’, walled city with gilded church domes is more symmetrical than in the Ballets Russes design. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.1911-1986 |
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| Record created | May 12, 2011 |
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