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VASLAV NIJINSKY (1889-1950) Leading dancer and ballet master of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Vaslav Nijinsky: photograph. [Austria], photographer Serge Lido, [1947]

Lotto 649
90120
15.5 x 12.2 cm On the reverse: sticker with photographer's stamp 'Photos Serge Lido. 4, Rue Choronvise, 75016 Paris'; ownership annotations Serge Lido (Sergey Pavlovich Lidov; 1906-1984) - a legendary ballet photographer, over his half-century career he created the most comprehensive archive of photographs of stars of world ballet, including Roland Petit, Nina Vyroubova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Serge Lifar, Milorad Miskovic, Alicia Markova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice Béjart, Martha Graham, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others, as well as a portrait gallery of the world's artistic and intellectual elite, including photographs of Jean Cocteau, Edith Piaf, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Maria Callas, Brigitte Bardot, Pierre Cardin, and others.


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