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Jouer de cartes

Title
Jouer de cartes [graphic].
Author
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963.
Publication
[1923]

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Still imageBy appointment only *MGZGA Bra G Fac 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description
1 drawing : graphite, gouache, col.; 30 x 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Card player
Subject
  • Woizikowski, Léon
  • Ballets russes
  • Fâcheux (Choreographic work : Nijinska)
Genre/Form
  • Costume design drawings.
  • Drawings – 20th century.
Note
  • Costume design for the card player in the ballet Les fâcheux. Design depicts a male figure in Baroque attire: a ruffed collar, stripped wide-sleeved coat, knee-breeches trimmed with ribbons, and a plumed hat. He holds a group of playing cards in one hand.
  • Notations in French, on recto in pencil, describes fabric and costume colors.
  • On verso, in pencil: Wojzikovsky. (Costume design for Leon Woizikowsky who played the card player in Fâcheux.)
  • This design was drawn on the verso of a page from an art catalog or publication reproducing a painting by Francis Picabia.
Biography (note)
  • Fâcheux was a ballet in one act based on Molière, with a libretto by Boris Kochno, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, music by Georges Auric, and costume, set, and curtain designs by Georges Braque. Premiered Jan. 19, 1924 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at Le Théâtre de Monte Carlo in Monte Carlo.
Publications (note)
  • This design reproduced and discussed in: Théâtre Serge de Diaghilew: Les fâcheux (Paris, Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1924).
Call Number
*MGZGA Bra G Fac 2
OCLC
244113617
Author
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963.
Title
Jouer de cartes [graphic].
Imprint
[1923]
Biography
Fâcheux was a ballet in one act based on Molière, with a libretto by Boris Kochno, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, music by Georges Auric, and costume, set, and curtain designs by Georges Braque. Premiered Jan. 19, 1924 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at Le Théâtre de Monte Carlo in Monte Carlo.
Publications
This design reproduced and discussed in: Théâtre Serge de Diaghilew: Les fâcheux (Paris, Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1924).
Local Note
Same image character as *MGZGA Bra G Fac 1.
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Local Subject
Ballets russes (Diaghilev)
Research Call Number
*MGZGA Bra G Fac 2
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