Ballet Russes

The Art of Costume

Exhibition
10 Dec 2010 – 1 May 2011
Photograph of two ballet dancers, a man and a woman, in a dramatic embrace. Both dancers are in elaborate costume.

E.O. Hoppé, The Fine Arts Society London, Thamar - Madame Thamar Karsavina and M. Adolph Bolm, 1913, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1983 © E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection

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A major exhibition of the Gallery’s renowned collection of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes including costumes by artists Natalia Goncharova, Michel Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque, André Masson and Giorgio de Chirico.

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The original website for this exhibition was published in 2010 and has been archived for research purposes.

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