Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. Gouache; sight: 42.7 x 57.6 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of George Balanchine in honor of John Martin, June 1974.

Uniform title

1. Orpheus.

Alternative title

1. Orpheus.

Subject

1. Set designs > 20th century
2. American Ballet Company
3. Orpheus and Eurydice (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Call number

1. *MGZGB Tch P Orp 1

Note

1. Set design for Act III, the Elysian fields, in the 1936 Metropolitan Opera Association production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, with choreography by George Balanchine.
2. Set represents a garden without gravity where everything floats and is to be perceived as if under water: trees with roots exposed, transparent conical forms suspended from above.

Author

1. Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957.

Title

1. [Elysian fields.

Imprint

1. 1936]

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material

Local subject

1. Set designs -- 20th century.

Research call number

1. *MGZGB Tch P Orp 1