THE “BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE” BALLET “LA POUPÉE AUX DENTELLES”
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MODERN COSTUME (A “FANTAISIE”). (GOUACHE)
the enormous twisted columns in the “Conseil des faux Dieux”, over whom Sebastian triumphs—these impress themselves indelibly upon one’s memory.
This architectural conception, the best possible setting for the actor and for the “round relief” which the human body forms, especially determined the grandiose and graceful setting for the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”,—this French masterpiece born of the soil of Russia which is fertile in miracles. In this work, the production of which was reserved for London, Bakst returns squarely to the surprises afforded by extraordinary short=cuts, to the harmony of masses that are organized, to the magic play of stage elevations raised in tiers, to the severe splendors of linear perspective.
We see him, after a century of realistic still=life deception, taking up again the work of the great decorators and architects, of the geometricians
A WOMAN LYING. TOUCHED UP DRAWING