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[Dancers]

Title: [Dancers] [graphic].
Author: Pageot-Rousseaux, L. (Lucienne)
Publication: [1911?-1971?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Folder 2	Still image	Supervised use	*MGZGE Pag L Dan 14-30 Folder 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Folder 1	Still image	Supervised use	*MGZGE Pag L Dan 1-13 Folder 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

30 drawings : chiefly ink, b&w; 51 x 50 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Action drawings, usually depicting a single dancer. The collection is arranged in three groups: Ballet dancers, Spanish dancers, and Others. Drawings in the first two groups are arranged in alphabetic order by the dancers' names.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Drawings.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
All except three drawings are signed: L. Pageot-Rousseaux.
The collection includes a few drawings in ink and wash or watercolor, and a few in graphite or charcoal.
Most of the drawings include penciled notes, usually identifying the dancer. Company names, titles of dance works, and/or performance venues are sometimes given.
Dates appear on only four drawings: two are dated 1935, one 1937 (though this is questionable; see below), and one 1958. External information based on the brief notes on the drawings suggests a span from 1911, when Anna Pavlova last danced with the Ballets Russes, to 1971, when Maurice Béjart's Nijinsky, clown de Dieu was first performed. Some of the drawings may have been made from memories of past performances or inspired by photographs.

Source (note)

Jean Pageot.

Biography (note)

French artist Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux, 1899-1994, illustrated the book Serge Lifar à l'Opéra (1943). Collections of her drawings of dance and theatre subjects were posthumously published by her husband Jean Pageot.

Contents

Folder 1. Ballet dancers (13 drawings): Jean Börlin in his ballet Derviches [first presented by Les Ballets Suedois in 1920] -- Janine Charrat -- Margot Fonteyn -- Serge Golovine performing the title role of Petrouchka with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas, 1958 -- Rosella Hightower in David Lichine's Le moulin enchanté [The enchanted mill; first presented by the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo in 1949] -- Rosella Hightower dancing with the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo -- Micha Van Hoecke in the Petrouchka role in Maurice Béjart's Nijinsky, clown de Dieu [first presented by the Ballet du XXe Siècle at the Palais des Sports du Forest, Brussels, in 1971] -- Serge Lifar in his version of L'apres-midi d'un faune [Afternoon of a faun] with the Paris Opéra Ballet, 1935 -- Leonide Massine [costumed for his ballet Union Pacific, first performed by De Basil's Ballets Russes, 1934] -- Rudolf Nureyev [the drawing is labeled with the French spelling of his name, Noureev] -- three images of Anna Pavlova in Giselle, one of them additionally labeled Ballets Russes, another depicting her partnered by an unidentified male dancer.
Folder 2. Spanish dancers (9 drawings): Carmen Amaya at the Théâtre du Champs-Elysées -- Antonio at the Théâtre du Champs-Elysées -- La Argentina in Suite argentine at the [Palais du?] Trocadero, [Paris?], 1935 -- La Argentina in Malagueña, to music by Albéniz, 1937 [drawing created after her death in 1936] -- La Argentina in L'amour sorcièr at the Opéra Comique, Paris -- Españita Cortez in Tricorne -- Teresa and Luisillo -- Teresina at the Théâtre du Champs-Elysées -- G. Valdorde [?] in Corrida.
Others (8 drawings): Four drawings of Josephine Baker, one labeled La creole; the others depict her carrying a multi-tiered parasol, dancing in the nude, and dancing on all fours -- Loie Fuller performing at a soirée on June 5 [no year] at the [illegible] Colonial [?] -- group scene from Aleksandr Borodin's opera Prince Igor -- three female dancers in Russian [?] costume; a female dancer in plaits, a hat, and a knee-length dress.

Call Number

*MGZGE Pag L Dan 1-30

OCLC

824795263

Author

Pageot-Rousseaux, L. (Lucienne)

Title

[Dancers] [graphic].

Imprint

[1911?-1971?]

Biography

French artist Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux, 1899-1994, illustrated the book Serge Lifar à l'Opéra (1943). Collections of her drawings of dance and theatre subjects were posthumously published by her husband Jean Pageot.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Jean Pageot.

Local Subject

Spanish dancing.

Added Author

Pageot, Jean. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZGE Pag L Dan 1-30

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