Explosion: Color: Paris: 1909: An Exhibition of Russian Theatre Design, Drawn from the Collection of Robert L. B. Tobin
San Antonio, TX: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1969.
Paperback.
Exhibition catalogue of 84 pieces of theatricana, designs and artwork for stage décor, costume, architectural settings, exteriors, marquettes, curtains, portraits, etc., in the collection of Robert L. B. Tobin.
"In 1908 Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929) brought Boris Godounoff to the Paris Opera, introducing Chaliapin to western audiences. The following year, the year of Color: Explosion, he presented a 'saison Russe' at the Chatelet Theatre, astonishing his audiences with the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, performed to a full chorus and with Chaliapin. This season Pavlova and Nijinsky danced La Pavillon d’Armide and Ida Rubenstein appeared as Cleopatre before Bakst’s settings. As Richard Buckle notes, the Russians worked like vodka on the Paris of 1909” (Leeper in his introduction). This exhibition documents the reverberations of this Russian “explosion” on modern theater.
Designers and artists represented include Boris Anisfeld, Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Eugene Berman, Ivan Bilibine, Mstislav Doboujinsky, Leon Gaspard, Natalia Goncharova, Valentine Gross, Malvina Hoffman, Georg Kolbe, Theodore Kumisarjevsky, Mikhail Larionov, Vaslav Nijinsky, Nicolai Vladimirovich Remisoff, Serge Soudeikine, Pavel Tchelicheff, Juan Gris, & Henri Matisse.
Item #9009437-3/8 x 9”, stiff pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, 9 illustrations, 1 photographic plate.
A bit of mild toning to edges of wrappers, near fine.Price: $35.00