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Tamara Karsavina

Title
Tamara Karsavina [graphic] / Max Pollak.
Author
Pollak, Max, 1886-
Publication
[191-? or later]

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Still imageSupervised use *MGZGB Pol M Tam 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description
1 print : etching, b&w; 53 x 39 cm., image 47 x 35 cm.
Summary
Action drawing of ballerina Tamara Karsavina. Her headdress and arm gesture suggest that she is performing the role of Odette, the swan queen in Swan lake.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Charlotte Hurwitz from the Estate of Nik Krevitsky, 1992.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Etchings.
Note
  • Signed in pencil.
  • Limited edition of 120.
Biography (note)
  • Tamara Karsavina, 1885-1978, began her career with the Imperial Russian Ballet, and was named a prima ballerina at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg before she was engaged by Serge Diaghilev to dance with his Ballets Russes in 1909. She first danced the role of Odette in Swan lake, or Le lac des cygnes, at the Maryinsky in 1908, but this etching was probably inspired by a performance in western Europe, perhaps in the Ballets Russes production, which was first presented in 1911.
  • Max Pollak, 1886-1970, was born in Prague but raised in Vienna, where he studied painting and etching. In 1910 he won the Prix de Rome, the first ever given to an etcher. He immigrated to the United States in 1927, making his home in San Francisco, where he continued to work as painter and printmaker.
Call Number
*MGZGB Pol M Tam 1
OCLC
749942203
Author
Pollak, Max, 1886-
Title
Tamara Karsavina [graphic] / Max Pollak.
Imprint
[191-? or later]
Biography
Tamara Karsavina, 1885-1978, began her career with the Imperial Russian Ballet, and was named a prima ballerina at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg before she was engaged by Serge Diaghilev to dance with his Ballets Russes in 1909. She first danced the role of Odette in Swan lake, or Le lac des cygnes, at the Maryinsky in 1908, but this etching was probably inspired by a performance in western Europe, perhaps in the Ballets Russes production, which was first presented in 1911.
Max Pollak, 1886-1970, was born in Prague but raised in Vienna, where he studied painting and etching. In 1910 he won the Prix de Rome, the first ever given to an etcher. He immigrated to the United States in 1927, making his home in San Francisco, where he continued to work as painter and printmaker.
Local Note
Library has no. 43.
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Research Call Number
*MGZGB Pol M Tam 1
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