{"product_id":"21549-nijinsky-waslaw-balogh-rudolf-signed-photograph-in-spectre-de-la-rose-1916","title":"Nijinsky, Waslaw. (1889-1950) [Balogh, Rudolf. (1879-1944)] Signed Photograph in \"Spectre de la Rose,\" 1916","description":"Halftone postcard photograph of Nijinsky in Fokine's \"Le Spectre de la rose,\" signed in brown ink to the lower mount \"W Nijinsky \/ 1916.\" \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eSight: 5.25\" H x 3.25\" W Frame: 11.75: H x 9.5\" W. \u003c\/span\u003eA fine signed example of an iconic image, uncredited on the present example, but\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e the photograph taken by Rudolph Balogh during the Ballets Russes March season in Budapest, March, 1913. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003eBased on a poem by Théophile Gautier, and choreographed by Michel Fokine to the music of Carl Maria von Weber's piano work \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eAufforderung zum Tanz, Spectre \u003c\/i\u003eis a short ballet about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball. The ballet premiered in Monte Carlo on 19 April 1911 with Nijinsky dancing The Rose and Tamara Karsavina, the Young Girl. It was a great success. \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eSpectre\u003c\/i\u003e became internationally famous for the spectacular leap Nijinsky made through a window at the ballet's end. Almost certainly taken just before a performance, the present photograph shows Nijinsky as the rose, wearing Bakst's costume of pink-red petals. His wife, Romola, described it: ‘On his head he wore a close-fitting helmet of rose-leaves, and the whole effect was an extremely close blending of different reds, rose-violet, pink, and purple, shading one into another, which is the essentially indefinable tint of the rose. Nijinsky’s make-up was conceived to personify a rose. His face was like that of a celestial insect, his eyebrows suggesting some beautiful beetle which one might expect to find closest to the heart of a rose, and his mouth was like rose petals.’\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003eThe leading Hungarian photographer \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eRudolf Balogh was noted for his documentary reportage. He was responsible for some of the first action photographs of the Ballets Russes taken on their visit to Budapest in 1913.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093785497759,"sku":"21549","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Nijinsky_Signed_Photograph_Spectre_de_la_Rose_21549.jpg?v=1722190340","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21549-nijinsky-waslaw-balogh-rudolf-signed-photograph-in-spectre-de-la-rose-1916","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}