The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920.

£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The plates represent the work of the main artists who contributed to the early days of the Ballets Russes - actually all main Parisian painters of the time: Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Sert and, on the Russian side, Bakst, Goncharova, Benois, Fedorovskiy, Golovin, Larionov, Roerich, Serov and Sudeykin. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. 4to (33.5 x 27 cm). xv, [4] list of illustrations, 132 pp., 66 tipped-in, mostly colour, illustrations after various artists, 5 portrait plates, full-page red and black lithograph and smaller illustrations after Goncharova in text; original quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, title in gilt to spine, spine yellowed, a good copy.

• Binding: Hardcover

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