Character portrait of Tamara Karsavina and Michel Fokine in L’Oiseau de Feu

Bakst, Léon (1866-1924)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1915
Height:
49.0 cm  (19 5/16 in.)
Width:
33.0 cm  (13 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor and pencil

    Item location

  • Harvard Library
    Harvard Theatre Collection[Museum inv. no.: pf MS Thr 414.4 (13)]

Description

This drawing shows Michel Fokine as Ivan Tsarevitch together with Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird, in the 1910 ballet by Stravinsky.

People as subjects

Fokine, Michel (1880-1942) (Dancer)
Karsavina, Tamara (1885-1978) (Dancer)

Musical works

Stravinsky, Igor -- Zhar-pti︠t︡sa

Image URLs

image link 1
Harvard online exhibition image
image link 2
Harvard Library catalog entry and images

RIdIM record id

4539