Ballets Russes Monte Carlo Program (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Front cover has a small color illustration of two musicians and a ballerina standing atop a horse in a country landscape. No date, circa 1935. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, a few in color, complete. Advertisements for various products and businesses included. Pages are clean and intact overall but have light age toning, tiny closed tears at head of spine, and small occasional marks and stains. Covers are very clean and intact except for a bump and several tiny closed tears at head of spine, light to moderate age toning, several small wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a promotional program for Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, a ballet company, for an unknown season (c. 1935-1936). The following are some of the contents: "History of Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes" by Edwin Evans (brief article about de Basil's company); bound-in repertoire or repertory with synopses (may be a partial list of the company's ballets); "Who's Who" section with brief biographical information about some of the dancers; concept art; black-and-white illustrations of production stills; and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of Colonel W. de Basil, Rene Blum, Efrem Kurtz, Antal Dorati, S. Hurok, Leonide Massine, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova, Irina Baronova, David Lichine, Alexandra Danilova, and Yurek Chabelevsky. Some of the advertised products and businesses: Florel Parfumeur, P. L. M. French Railway, Hotel Astoria, Prince Matchabelli, and Waldorf Astoria. Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (not to be confused with one of its successors, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo) was founded in 1931 by Wassily de Basil (commonly referred to as Colonel W. de Basil), Rene Blum, and Serge Denham. In 1934, de Basil and Blum parted ways. De Basil renamed his company Original Ballet Russe, and Blum and Leonide Massine went on to form their own company, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Original Ballet Russe remained in business until 1947 when it disbanded. Original Ballet Russe had a brief revival in 1951 but went out of business in 1952 due to financial reasons.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows a stylized depiction of a knight holding a sword and shield. No date, circa 1936. 9 1/2" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (most in black-and-white; several color illustrations in center), complete. Many advertisements for various products and businesses included. A thin vertical strip of paper is bound in before Alexandra Danilova's portrait illustration (this may have been where another page was or it may simply be a stub, in which case no pages are missing). Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning and slight wear and wrinkling to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (not to be confused with Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo) for Season 1936-1937 (4th American Season). The following are some of the contents: introductory statements for the current season and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of S. Hurok, Leonide Massine, Lubov Tchernicheva, David Lichine, Alexandra Danilova, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova, Yurek Shabelevsky, Nina Verchinina, Tamara Grigorieva, Olga Morosova, Eugenie Delarova, Paul Petroff, and Roman Jasinsky. Some of the advertised products or businesses in this program: Capehart, Caron, French Railways, Coty, The Stevens hotel in Chicago, Koret, Helena Rubinstein, Pinaud, Padinox, Guerlain, and French Line. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo and the similarly named Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo were the successors to Serghei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was formed in 1931 by Wassily de Basil (commonly referred to as Colonel W. de Basil) and Rene Blum. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was renamed Original Ballet Russe after de Basil and Blum parted ways (Blum's company became the aforementioned Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo). Original Ballet Russe remained active until 1947. Notably, impresario Sol Hurok came to manage both de Basil's Original Ballet Russe and Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows two stylized figures, a male dancer lifting a female dancer in a graceful pose. No date, circa 1937. 9 1/2" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (most in black-and-white; several color illustrations in center), complete. Many advertisements for various products and businesses included. Pages are very clean and intact except for glue residue on the Prince Matchabelli ad (this may have been the adhesive for a now-missing illustration, but it may also simply be a stain), occasional colored pencil inscriptions limited to margins, creases on a few of the portrait illustrations, and light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for several small wrinkles and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (not to be confused with Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo) for Season 1937-1938 (5th American Season). The following are some of the contents: introductory statements for the current season; synopses of at least some of the company's ballets; brief biographical information about some of the company's staff and dancers; announcement for "Argentinita and her Spanish ballet"; and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of W. de Basil, S. Hurok, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, David Lichine, Lubov Tchernicheva, Alexandra Danilova, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Paul Petroff, Yurek Shabelevsky, Roman Jasinsky, Tamara Grigorieva, Eugenie Delarova, and Olga Morosova. Some of the advertised products or businesses in this program: Flexees, Caron, Lanvin, Helena Rubinstein, Bellows & Company, Prince Matchabelli, French State Railways, and Pinaud. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo and the similarly named Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo were the successors to Serghei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was formed in 1931 by Wassily de Basil (commonly referred to as Colonel W. de Basil) and Rene Blum. Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo was renamed Original Ballet Russe after de Basil and Blum parted ways (Blum's company became the aforementioned Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo). Original Ballet Russe remained active until 1947. Notably, impresario Sol Hurok came to manage both de Basil's Original Ballet Russe and Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp [40]. Original publisher's shiny gold covers, lettered navy blue, with Derain drawing of dancers and blue cord ribbon. Black and white photographs of dancers including Massine, Danilova, Riabouchinska, Toumanova, Lichine, Baronova. Coloured insert of costumes and scenery by Miro, Derain, Pruna, Masson, Dufy, de Beaumont, Bernard. No date, [1933]. With the small blind-stamp of John Michael Blundall (1937-2014) one of the world's leading designers, makers and performers of puppet theatre. Among many other things he created puppet characters in,'Supercar',n'Fireball XL5', 'Stingray' and 'Thunderbirds'. He was also a collector of books on every aspect of the theatre. Slight creasing and faint wear, otherwise very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Wraps. Condition: Good + overall. First edition. Profusely illustrated souvenir of the Ballet Russes first American tour, with b&w printed photographs of dancers including Massine, Danilova, Riabouchinska, Toumanova, Lichine, and Baronova, and scenery and costume printed color illustrations by Christian Berard, Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy and Joan Miro. Includes a printed insert, "Synopsis of Ballets", with brief descriptions of the following ballets: La Concurrence, Les Presage, Le Beau Danube, Scuola de Ballo, Beach, Le Lac des Cygnes, Petrouchka, Prince Igor and Le Tricorne. The loosely inserted program is entitled, "The Philadelphia Forum presents for the First Time in Philadelphia, Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Director General, W. de Basil". It features Les Sylphides, Le Tricorne, and Le Beau Danube, names the individual dancers for this performance, and provides the story lines. Printed on rear wrapper: Artistic Director, Rene Blum; Maitre de Ballet, Leonide Massine; and Regisseur General, Serge Grigorieff. 4 x 5 1/2", [8] pp, staple bound; crudely opened, o/w very good + condition. Not found in World Cat. Large 4to, [40] pp. Bound with blue cord ribbon. Original publisher's glossy gold paper wrappers, title lettered in blue, with Derain drawing of 2 dancers at front wrapper. Wrappers rubbed, with a couple of creases; corners bumped; previous owner inscription in blue ink inside front wrapper; text and illustrations bright and clean. OCLC: 25907918 records 4 copies, at the University Nebraska/Lincoln, University Wisconsin/Madison, California Institute of the Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum.

56 pp (including covers) ballet program with an illustrated cover by Georges A. de Pogedareff (transcribed from indistinct signature). Russian ballet impresario Wassily de Basil, usually referred to as Colonel W. De Basil, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo with artistic director Rene Blum in 1932. The ballet company toured all over Europe and North and South America. This particular program is from their time in New York, as evidence by the numerous advertisements by New York Companies. The majority of the program consists of black and white portraits of the companies leaders and dancers. There are also images of several ballets being performed. Along with the main program is a smaller program for a specific performance by the ballet in Schenectady, NY on November 21, 1934. The ballet performed three plays that night, "Les Presages", "Le Mariage D'Aurore", and "Le Beau Danube." Measures 12" x 9" (large program), 9" x 6" (small program). The main program's cover is soiled and has minor edge wear. Otherwise the programs are toned due to age.