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Maker(s):Benois, Alexandre
Culture:Russian (1870 - 1960)
Title:Costume Design for Ida Rubinstein in the Ballet “La Valse” (“The Waltz”)
Date Made:1928
Type:Drawing
Materials:Watercolor, pencil and crayon
Measurements:Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.; 26.0 x 18.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2001.298
Credit Line:Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
Preliminary design of a costume for the production in Paris in 1929 (music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska).

Label Text:
Inscriptions
Upper left, brown pencil: Valse / 1ere idée / pour Ida
Upper right, graphite: 1928
Lower right, graphite: AB. 1928

Tags:
costume; dresses; dance; writing

Subjects:
Costume; Dance

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