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Le Tricorne

Silhouette
1930s (cut)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Black paper silhouette by shadow-puppeteer, Lotte Reiniger, of Lèonide Massine as the Miller with his hands raised as if playing castanets in his own ballet Le Tricorne/The Three-Cornered Hat mounted on Japanese tissue mounted on white and grey card. Signed LR in pencil on the Japanese tissue on the right and annotated MASSINE LE TRICORNE.

Le Tricorne/The Three-Cornered Hat was choreographed for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by Lèonide Massine in 1919 to a score by Manuel de Falla and designs by Pablo Picasso was a popular ballet presenting an adaptation of the Spanish play El Corregidor y La Molinera. It was first danced by de Basil's Ballets Russes in 1934.

Shadow puppeteer, Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) created silhouettes of De Basil’s Ballets Russes for illustrations in periodicals and as souvenirs sold through the book dealer Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLe Tricorne (generic title)
Materials and techniques
cut paper
Brief description
Black paper silhouette by Lotte Reiniger of Lèonide Massine as the Miller in his own ballet Le Tricorne/The Three-Cornered Hat
Physical description
Black silhouette of Lèonide Massine as the Miller in Le Tricorne mounted on Japanese tissue window mounted on white and grey card. Signed LR in pencil on the Japanese tissue on the right and annotated MASSINE LE TRICORNE.
Dimensions
  • Height of silhouette height: 5cm
  • Width of black silhouette width: 1.7cm
  • Height of japanese tissue height: 7.3cm
  • Width of japanese tissue width: 5cm
  • Height of white mount height: 8cm
  • Width of white mount width: 6cm
Summary
Black paper silhouette by shadow-puppeteer, Lotte Reiniger, of Lèonide Massine as the Miller with his hands raised as if playing castanets in his own ballet Le Tricorne/The Three-Cornered Hat mounted on Japanese tissue mounted on white and grey card. Signed LR in pencil on the Japanese tissue on the right and annotated MASSINE LE TRICORNE.

Le Tricorne/The Three-Cornered Hat was choreographed for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by Lèonide Massine in 1919 to a score by Manuel de Falla and designs by Pablo Picasso was a popular ballet presenting an adaptation of the Spanish play El Corregidor y La Molinera. It was first danced by de Basil's Ballets Russes in 1934.

Shadow puppeteer, Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) created silhouettes of De Basil’s Ballets Russes for illustrations in periodicals and as souvenirs sold through the book dealer Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.
Collection
Accession number
S.3687-2013

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Record createdSeptember 26, 2013
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