Description
1954
Éditions Arts du Monde/Hachette, Paris
Dimensions : 31,5 x 23,5 cm
Bound in publisher's red cloth decorated with an iron engraved by E. Souze, after an original drawing by Matisse from 1949 "Christiane" printed in white, title in white on the spine, dust jacket in rhodoïd with the title in black on the first cover, 386 pages. Ballet in France from the fifteenth century to the present day: The Court Masquerade and the Beginnings of Ballet, The King's Ballet, Academic Dance and the Reform of Noverre, The Romantic Ballet, Decadence and Renaissance, The Russian Ballets of Serge de Diaghilew, The Contemporary Ballet
Text by Boris Kochno and Maria Luz illustrated with numerous reproductions (415), some of them enhanced with stencils.
In frontispiece an original lithograph in colors of Picasso
Condition : Good condition. Cover slightly damaged and stained on the edge. Pages slightly yellowed
Succession Picasso 2024