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Ballet Russes de Diaghilew-exposition organisée par Serge Lifar / Jean Cocteau. – Historic Reproduction

Ballet Russes de Diaghilew-exposition organisée par Serge Lifar / Jean Cocteau., [1939] — vintage poster
Ballet Russes de Diaghilew-exposition organisée par Serge Lifar / Jean Cocteau., [1939]. Vintage poster from the World's Fairs collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few posters of the late 1930s look back as directly as this one, which names the Ballet Russes de Diaghilev in its title and credits Serge Lifar and Jean Cocteau with organizing the exhibition. Diaghilev's company, founded in Paris in 1909, reshaped European dance and stage design through its work with painters, composers and writers, and Lifar and Cocteau were both closely tied to that legacy. Printed in color lithography in 1939, the poster recalls an enterprise that had ended with Diaghilev's death in 1929. Its subject headings mention ballet in the Soviet Union, though the company itself was based in Paris.

Created / published[1939]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
GenrePerforming arts posters French 1930-1940.Lithographs Color 1930-1940.
SubjectsBallerinas--1930-1940. Ballet--Soviet Union--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan869 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176899

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