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[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo] Derain, André. (1880-1934) [Balanchine, George. (1904–1983)] [Woizikowski, Leon. (1899 - 1975) & Toumanova, Tamara. (1919-1996)] "La Concurrence" - Original Photograph, 1932
[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo] Derain, André. (1880-1934) [Balanchine, George. (1904–1983)] [Woizikowski, Leon. (1899 - 1975) & Toumanova, Tamara. (1919-1996)] "La Concurrence" - Original Photograph, 1932
[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo] Derain, André. (1880-1934) [Balanchine, George. (1904–1983)] [Woizikowski, Leon. (1899 - 1975) & Toumanova, Tamara. (1919-1996)]. "La Concurrence" - Original Photograph, 1932.
Original silver gelatin photograph of this historic production by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, ca. 1932, depicting a throng of villagers in the garment district of a French town, a small group of ballerinas covering their faces in shame to the right and including, among others, Leon Woizikowski and Tamara Toumanova. Crease to lower left corner and upper right margin, else fine. Typed label, "Ballet russe de Monte Carlo," to verso.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm).  Overall in fine condition.  

Derain, one of the founders of the Fauvist movement, was an internationally acclaimed, award-winning French painter. In the years following the First World War, he split away from the avant-garde movement and his work returned to a more classical approach. Derain's first collaboration with the Ballets Russes was with Diaghilev in 1919 (he designed the costumes and sets for La Boutique Fantastique). After Diaghilev's death in 1929, the Ballets Russes ceased operation until 1932, when the company was re-instituted by René Blum and Wassili de Basíl as the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. The new group worked with Leonide Massine and George Balanchine and was able to maintain a similar level of quality and creative effort as before. Derain was commissioned to design the costumes and sets for their premiere performance, La Concurrence.

The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.  The company assumed the new name Original Ballet Russe after a split between de Basil and Blum in 1937.  De Basil led the renamed company, while Blum and others founded a new company under the name Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.  The large-scale professional ballet company toured extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States, and Central and South America until 1947.  Blum, however, fell victim to the Holocaust.  Arrested in by the Nazis in Paris in 1941, he was killed in Auschwitz in the following year.

Notable in this image are the great ballerina Tamara Toumanova (farthest right) and Leon Woizikowski (striped costume with long jacket, center), who joined the Ballets Russes in 1916 and was Diaghilev's most outstanding character dancer. He created roles in Leonide Massine's Las Meninas (1916), Les Femmes de bonne humeur and Parade (1917), La Boutique Fantasque and Le Tricorne (1919), Les Matelots (1925), Le Pas d'acier (1927), and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Noces (1923), Les Biches (1924) and Le Train Bleu (1915). George Balanchine choreographed roles for Woizikowski in Barabau (1925), The Gods Go-a-Begging (1925), Le Bal and Prodigal Son (1929). After Diaghilev's death Woizikowski joined Anna Pavlova's company and during 1932 and 1933 he danced with René Blum's Ballet Russe and created roles in Balanchine's Cotillon and Le Concurrence (1932), and Massine's Jeux d'enfants, Les Presages, Beach, and Choreartium (1933).

[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo] Derain, André. (1880-1934) [Balanchine, George. (1904–1983)] [Woizikowski, Leon. (1899 - 1975) & Toumanova, Tamara. (1919-1996)] "La Concurrence" - Original Photograph, 1932

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[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo] Derain, André. (1880-1934) [Balanchine, George. (1904–1983)] [Woizikowski, Leon. (1899 - 1975) & Toumanova, Tamara. (1919-1996)]. "La Concurrence" - Original Photograph, 1932.
Original silver gelatin photograph of this historic production by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, ca. 1932, depicting a throng of villagers in the garment district of a French town, a small group of ballerinas covering their faces in shame to the right and including, among others, Leon Woizikowski and Tamara Toumanova. Crease to lower left corner and upper right margin, else fine. Typed label, "Ballet russe de Monte Carlo," to verso.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm).  Overall in fine condition.  

Derain, one of the founders of the Fauvist movement, was an internationally acclaimed, award-winning French painter. In the years following the First World War, he split away from the avant-garde movement and his work returned to a more classical approach. Derain's first collaboration with the Ballets Russes was with Diaghilev in 1919 (he designed the costumes and sets for La Boutique Fantastique). After Diaghilev's death in 1929, the Ballets Russes ceased operation until 1932, when the company was re-instituted by René Blum and Wassili de Basíl as the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. The new group worked with Leonide Massine and George Balanchine and was able to maintain a similar level of quality and creative effort as before. Derain was commissioned to design the costumes and sets for their premiere performance, La Concurrence.

The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.  The company assumed the new name Original Ballet Russe after a split between de Basil and Blum in 1937.  De Basil led the renamed company, while Blum and others founded a new company under the name Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.  The large-scale professional ballet company toured extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States, and Central and South America until 1947.  Blum, however, fell victim to the Holocaust.  Arrested in by the Nazis in Paris in 1941, he was killed in Auschwitz in the following year.

Notable in this image are the great ballerina Tamara Toumanova (farthest right) and Leon Woizikowski (striped costume with long jacket, center), who joined the Ballets Russes in 1916 and was Diaghilev's most outstanding character dancer. He created roles in Leonide Massine's Las Meninas (1916), Les Femmes de bonne humeur and Parade (1917), La Boutique Fantasque and Le Tricorne (1919), Les Matelots (1925), Le Pas d'acier (1927), and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Noces (1923), Les Biches (1924) and Le Train Bleu (1915). George Balanchine choreographed roles for Woizikowski in Barabau (1925), The Gods Go-a-Begging (1925), Le Bal and Prodigal Son (1929). After Diaghilev's death Woizikowski joined Anna Pavlova's company and during 1932 and 1933 he danced with René Blum's Ballet Russe and created roles in Balanchine's Cotillon and Le Concurrence (1932), and Massine's Jeux d'enfants, Les Presages, Beach, and Choreartium (1933).

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