With the plates in beautiful, fresh condition

BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER

Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina

Publication: Collections Pierre Corrard, Paris, 1914.

With the plates in beautiful, fresh condition
BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER. Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina.
Published/created in: 1914

£3,950

Fine example of the first edition. Barbier, a great art-deco artist and illustrator, celebrates here one of the star dancers of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes – a beautiful production in appealing condition.

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Fine example of this celebrated Art Déco album celebrating the Ballets Russes by a master of the genre, published in a limited quantity of 512 copies (this one num. 370).

The prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet and then Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) became a legend in her own lifetime.

This landmark edition celebrating her work brings together 15 poems on her major roles by the writer and art historian Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (1883-1963) — who earlier in his career had written the libretto for the ballet Le Spectre de la Rose (1911) starring Karsavina — and 12 full-page fresh stencil-coloured plates and three black and white compositions by the prominent artist George Barbier (1882-1932), who also began his career as a costume and set designer for the Ballets Russes. The album’s elegant art-deco black and gold cover is also a creation of Barbier.

Item number

3168

 

Physical Description

Large 4to (34 x 27.5 cm). Title, limitation leaf, [18] pp. with illustration to last page, 12 pochoir plates by Barbier (most dated 1914), colophon leaf.

Binding

Original publisher’s wrappers bound in contemporary blue marbled boards, flat plain spine, marbled endpapers, kept in matching marbled slipcase, the wrapper upper cover illustrated in black and gold.

Condition

Except some light offsetting from plates, in excellent, fresh condition internally; wrappers minimally spotted, binding a bit sunned at edges and slightly warped, one leaf reinforced in gutter.

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