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Additional authors

1. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1. Watercolor, pen and ink on a wash background; 42 x 35 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Subject

1. New York City Ballet
2. Costume designs > 20th century
3. Illuminations (Choreographic work : Ashton)

Call number

1. *MGZGB Bea C Ill 1

Note

1. Signed lower left: Beaton.
2. Costume for birdcage woman in Ashton's ballet Illuminations, premiered by the New York City Ballet, March 2, 1950.
3. Full-length to the left, woman holding cage with bird in right hand, five cages of birds on back; wearing tall, cylindrical hat with rounded crown, shawl, skirt with patches.

Funding (note)

1. Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Author

1. Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980.

Title

1. Les illuminations, birdcage woman.

Imprint

1. [1950]

Funding

1. Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material

Local subject

1. Costume designs -- 20th century.

Added author

1. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research call number

1. *MGZGB Bea C Ill 1