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[Alexandra Danilova in her dressing room]
- Title
- [Alexandra Danilova in her dressing room] [graphic] / A. von Munchhausen.
- Author
- Munchhausen, August von.
- Publication
- 1940.
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Details
- Found In
- Alexandra Danilova collection.
- Description
- 1 drawing on cardboard : charcoal with white chalk highlights on blue background, b&w; 49 x 63 cm.
- Summary
- Informal portrait of ballerina Alexandra Danilova, wearing a simple white tutu and standing in profile before a mirror. At right is a dressing table; at center an open traveling trunk, with pointe shoes atop it. A woman sits at a desk or piano at left, while tutus hang overhead. A detail of the dancer's head is lightly sketched at upper right.
- Alternative Title
- Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Drawings.
- Note
- Signed and dated: A. von Munchhausen, '40.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Source (note)
- Alexandra Danilova
- Biography (note)
- Alexandra Danilova trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her performing career in Russia, but left in 1924 with George Balanchine, for whom she was, for a time, muse and romantic partner. She danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and other ballet companies, and for many fans she epitomized the glamourous Russian ballerina. In later life she taught her art to younger dancers, notably at New York City's School of American Ballet, which Balanchine had co-founded. August von Munchhausen, 1908- , was known as an artist and fencer. His works frequently depict ballet dancers of the 1940s, captured in charcoal or pastel.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.
- Call Number
- *MGZGE Mun A Dan 1
- OCLC
- 824761536
- Author
- Munchhausen, August von.
- Title
- [Alexandra Danilova in her dressing room] [graphic] / A. von Munchhausen.
- Imprint
- 1940.
- Biography
- Alexandra Danilova trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her performing career in Russia, but left in 1924 with George Balanchine, for whom she was, for a time, muse and romantic partner. She danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and other ballet companies, and for many fans she epitomized the glamourous Russian ballerina. In later life she taught her art to younger dancers, notably at New York City's School of American Ballet, which Balanchine had co-founded. August von Munchhausen, 1908- , was known as an artist and fencer. His works frequently depict ballet dancers of the 1940s, captured in charcoal or pastel.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Alexandra Danilova, 1976.
- Added Author
- Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997. Donor
- Added Title
- Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.
- Found In:
- Alexandra Danilova collection.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGE Mun A Dan 1