Research Catalog
[Commedia dell'arte scene]
- Title
- [Commedia dell'arte scene] [graphic] / N. Remisoff.
- Author
- Remisoff, Nicolas.
- Publication
- 1928.
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Details
- Description
- 1 drawing on tracing paper : graphite, b&w; 30 x 59 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of three figures against an undersized townscape, perhaps a stage set. The central figure, who appears to wear Harlequin's lozenge-patterned suit, plays a trick with perspective, raising his right foot behind a bell-tower that should be in the background of the scene. The two characters at left and right appear to confront each other antagonistically. The person at left, possibly a woman, carries a folded fan and wears a half-mask and figure-concealing voluminous garments; the pot-bellied man at right wears spectacles, a feathered hat, and a sword.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Source (note)
- Ruth Page.
- Biography (note)
- The artist and stage designer Nicolas Remisoff, 1884-1975, began his career in his native St. Petersburg. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, he lived and worked for a time in Paris, then moved to Chicago, where he resided from 1925 to 1935. During that time he frequently collaborated with the dancer-choreographers Adolph Bolm and Ruth Page. This drawing may relate to Bolm's commedia dell'arte ballet Arlecchinata or Harlequinade, for which Remisoff designed sets and costumes. Performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in Apr. 1928, this ballet shared the bill with Bolm's version of Igor Stravinsky's Apollo, in which Ruth Page, the donor of this drawing, danced the role of Terpsichore.
- Call Number
- *MGZGE Rem N Com 1
- OCLC
- 824923360
- Author
- Remisoff, Nicolas.
- Title
- [Commedia dell'arte scene] [graphic] / N. Remisoff.
- Imprint
- 1928.
- Biography
- The artist and stage designer Nicolas Remisoff, 1884-1975, began his career in his native St. Petersburg. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, he lived and worked for a time in Paris, then moved to Chicago, where he resided from 1925 to 1935. During that time he frequently collaborated with the dancer-choreographers Adolph Bolm and Ruth Page. This drawing may relate to Bolm's commedia dell'arte ballet Arlecchinata or Harlequinade, for which Remisoff designed sets and costumes. Performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in Apr. 1928, this ballet shared the bill with Bolm's version of Igor Stravinsky's Apollo, in which Ruth Page, the donor of this drawing, danced the role of Terpsichore.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Ruth Page.
- Added Author
- Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGE Rem N Com 1