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[Design for L'amour et son amour, scene one]

Title
[Design for L'amour et son amour, scene one] [graphic] / Jean Cocteau.
Author
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Publication
[Milly, France], 1950.

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Additional Authors
DHCA.
Description
1 drawing : pencil on paper; 50 x 65 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Charles Payne estate.
Subject
  • American Ballet Theatre
  • Amour et son amour (Choreographic work : Babilée)
Genre/Form
Design drawings.
Note
  • Line-drawing signed: Jean Cocteau, 1950.
  • Preliminary design for Jean Babilée's ballet, L'amour et son amour. A stylized sun face with closed eyes rises over stylized hills, which are actually a woman in semi-reclining position. At lower left is a stylized head profile; its long wavy hair intersects with the long wavy hair of the reclining woman. Words for colors (bleu, gris, vert, orange) are written on reclining woman's dress.
Indexed In (note)
  • Dancing times
  • Ballet review
Additional Formats (note)
  • Reproduced;
Call Number
*MGZGC Coc J Amo 1
OCLC
NYPY95-F146
Author
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Title
[Design for L'amour et son amour, scene one] [graphic] / Jean Cocteau.
Imprint
[Milly, France], 1950.
Indexed In:
Dancing times, Nov. 1949, p. 69.
Ballet review, Summer 1994, p. 36.
Additional Formats
Reproduced; Published in American Ballet Theatre, thirty-six years of scenic and costume design, 1940-1976 (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. and the International Exhibition Foundation, 1976).
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Local Subject
Set designs -- 20th century.
Added Author
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZGC Coc J Amo 1
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