[Baba-Yaga]
- Title
- [Baba-Yaga] [graphic] / M. Larionov.
- Published by
- 1916.
- Author
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Status Not available - Please for assistance. | FormatStill image | AccessBy appointment only | Call number*MGZGE Lar M Bab 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Description
- 1 painting : gouache, colored; 55 x 47 cm., on mount 64 x 54 cm.
- Summary
- Costume design depicting an unattractive elderly woman supporting herself with a cane. One foot appears to be shorter than the other, and a peg is attached to her shoe to compensate for the difference. A head-wrap conceals her hair. Her dress is red-brown in hue, with a deep decorative border of royal blue and white motifs on a blue-green background.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Call number
- *MGZGE Lar M Bab 1
- Note
- Signed and dated.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Biography (note)
- Although a label on the back of its frame identified the subject of this design as "Fée Carabosse," or the wicked fairy Carabosse from Marius Petipa's ballet The sleeping beauty, it actually depicts the ogress Baba-Yaga from Leonide Massine's ballet Contes russes (also called Children's tales). The ballet's sets and costumes were designed by the Russian artist Mikhail Larionov, probably better known today for his avant-garde work rather than folkloric designs. The first version of Contes russes was presented by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Italy in 1916, and additional scenes and interludes augmented the productions in Paris in 1917 and in London in 1919. Baba-Yaga, wearing this costume, may be seen at far right in a print by Ethelbert White, probably made in 1918 or 1919.
- Author
- Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich, 1881-1964.
- Title
- [Baba-Yaga] [graphic] / M. Larionov.
- Imprint
- 1916.
- Biography
- Although a label on the back of its frame identified the subject of this design as "Fée Carabosse," or the wicked fairy Carabosse from Marius Petipa's ballet The sleeping beauty, it actually depicts the ogress Baba-Yaga from Leonide Massine's ballet Contes russes (also called Children's tales). The ballet's sets and costumes were designed by the Russian artist Mikhail Larionov, probably better known today for his avant-garde work rather than folkloric designs. The first version of Contes russes was presented by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Italy in 1916, and additional scenes and interludes augmented the productions in Paris in 1917 and in London in 1919. Baba-Yaga, wearing this costume, may be seen at far right in a print by Ethelbert White, probably made in 1918 or 1919.
- Local note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- For Ethelbert White's print of the Baba-Yaga scene from Contes russes, see: *MGZGD Whi E Bal 3.
- Research call number
- *MGZGE Lar M Bab 1