[Ballets Russes]
Souvenir Serge De Diaghileff's BALLET RUSSE - Original 1916 Tour Program
Original 1916 souvenir program from the first American tour of the Ballet Russe, featuring a cover illustration of Nijinsky in Scheherezade by Robert Montenegro and many full-color costume designs and other illustrations by Leon Bakst and others. The contents also include a photographs of Nijinsky in Spectre de la Rose, Bakst's Nijinsky as Faun, Adolf Bolm, Flore Revalles, and groups of dancers in Scheherezade, Prince Igor, and L'Après-Midi d'un Faune; ballet descriptions, an itinerary, and advertisements. Pages are of thick ivory uncoated paper, cover is thick mottled grey paper, with embossed gold art and letters. This is a particularly rare copy, in that it features the superb illustration of Nijinsky in Scheherezade by Robert Montenegro on the cover; the program is more commonly found with a different illustration on the cover. Library stamp to verso of front cover and a 1917 ownership signature from the artist Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (1887–1965) on the first page. Edge and corner wear to the wrapper; bound with a light brown cord; overall in very good condition. 36 pp. 9 x 12.25 inches (23.2 x 31.2 cm). (14824)Program, unsigned Dance