Collectif - Lot 53

Collectif Les Ballets Russes 1 large volume in-4°, period binding in burgundy half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed with titles and small gilt irons, as well as a stylized dancer in gilt stippling. Used rubbing on the leather, the second cover very damaged, distorted by humidity and lacking paper. Unique composite album of collages, reproductions, watercolors, tracings, cut-outs from programs, magazines, documentations... including : 1- Comoedia Illustré: Mme Karsavina et Mr Bolm dans Thamar; issue enriched with a tracing paper signed Bakst. 27 x 18 cm depicting Miss Karsavina in "Firebird". 2- Unsigned color watercolor of a dancer. Revue 7ème saison des ballets russes reproductions after Léon Bakst for "Dieu Bleu". 3- Unsigned watercolor "Daphnis et Chloé, 2eme acte" after Bakst. 4- Watercolor signed Bakst. 29 x 22 cm depicting Nijinsky in Afternoon of a Faun 5- Afternoon of a Faun. Tracing paper signed Bakst and dated 1912. 24 x 16 cm. 6- Extraordinary issue of the magazine Comoedia Illustré devoted to the Ballets russes. 7- Ballets russes Paris 1917 program, illustration by Picasso, Théâtre du Chatelet, May 1917. 8- Ballets russes 1919/1920 at the Opéra. 9- Ballets russes by Serge de Diaghilew. Gaité Lyrique program, May 1921. Contains a small watercolor after Picasso. 13 x 18 cm depicting a theater set. 10- Ballets russes à l'Opéra, May, June 1922 11- Ballets russes Gaité Lyrique 1923. 12- Grande Saison d'Art de la VIII Olympiade, Ballets russes de Serge de Diaghilew, Théâtre des Champs Elysées Mai Juin 1924 / with Envoi " Pour Mon Cher Paul Francis Poulenc 51 ". 13- 1925 Ballets Russes 1928, sent by composer Henry Sauget "Pour Elsa et Paul Collaer en souvenir d'une amitié de trente ans...3/12/51". 14- Ballets russes 1928, mailing to Paul Collaer from Nicolas Nabokoff follows various programs with two or three cut-outs. After some research, the mailings are probably addressed to Paul Collaer and his wife Elsa Meyer. Paul Collaer was a great Belgian musicologist, pianist and conductor. Very fine set including 3 signed originals by the great painter Léon Bakst.