& Sergei Gustavovich) [Russian Ballet in Caricatures], 94 chromolithographed caricature portraits of members of the Imperial Russian Ballet Company including a self-portrait of the artists, tissue guards, no text, light damp-stain mildly affecting approximately 10 plates, otherwise internally very good, contemporary calf-backed cloth, splitting at upper joint, partly sunned, 4to, [Saint Petersburg, Legat Bros.], [1902-5]. *** An extremely attractive and highly collectable work amongst books on ballet, hard to find complete with the ninety-four plates. The Legat brothers were graduates of the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet School and rose to premier danseurs, performing with many of great ballerinas of the day. Nikolai Gustavovich became ballet master for the company and later for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1925-1926; he and his wife founded the Russian Ballet Society in Great Britain in 1923. At age 17, Sergei Legat originated the role of the Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky's ballet; in 1903, the brothers staged Nikolai Josef Bayer's ballet Feya kukol [The Doll Fairy] with costumes by Léon Bakst Their caricatures are often mercilessly warts-and-all...
& Sergei Gustavovich) [Russian Ballet in Caricatures], 94 chromolithographed caricature portraits of members of the Imperial Russian Ballet Company including a self-portrait of the artists, tissue guards, no text, light damp-stain mildly affecting approximately 10 plates, otherwise internally very good, contemporary calf-backed cloth, splitting at upper joint, partly sunned, 4to, [Saint Petersburg, Legat Bros.], [1902-5]. *** An extremely attractive and highly collectable work amongst books on ballet, hard to find complete with the ninety-four plates. The Legat brothers were graduates of the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet School and rose to premier danseurs, performing with many of great ballerinas of the day. Nikolai Gustavovich became ballet master for the company and later for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1925-1926; he and his wife founded the Russian Ballet Society in Great Britain in 1923. At age 17, Sergei Legat originated the role of the Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky's ballet; in 1903, the brothers staged Nikolai Josef Bayer's ballet Feya kukol [The Doll Fairy] with costumes by Léon Bakst Their caricatures are often mercilessly warts-and-all...
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