Research Catalog

Title

Irina Baronova collection of costume designs [graphic].

Publication

[194-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Baronova, Irina.
• Baronov, Michel.
• Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Found In

Irina Baronova collection.

Description

33 paintings : chiefly gouache, watercolor, color; 42 x 30 cm. or smaller; some on mounts 47 x 35 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Costume designs in various artistic styles, possibly the work of several different designers. Includes eleven designs for male performers and twenty-two for women. It is not known whether any of these designs were actually realized.

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Alternative Title

Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Subjects

• Ballet Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
• Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
• Costume design drawings

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Funding (note)

• Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography (note)

• Russian-born Irina Baronova, 1919-2008, began her dance career as one of the "baby ballerinas" discovered by choreographer George Balanchine in a Paris ballet studio in the 1930s. These designs are thought to date from the early 1940s, when she danced with Ballet Theatre and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The designs for the shoeshine boy and the man with the monocle may have been intended for Leonide Massine's ballet The New Yorker, produced by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1940; however, no equivalents have been located among photographs of that production. Other designs may be the work of Michel Baronov, Baronova's father, who had a flair for art. He adapted Leon Bakst's scene designs for Ballet Theatre's Princess Aurora (i.e., Aurora's wedding) in 1941 and Alexandre Benois's designs for the same company's revival of Petrouchka in 1942; both ballets featured his daughter as the leading ballerina.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Contents

• Folder 1. Men's costume designs (11 sheets): includes four historical or period costumes, among them an Egyptian-style costume, two men in biblical robes, and a bewigged man in 18th-century garments; two folk costumes; three 20th-century costumes, among them a workman, a shoeshine boy, and a well-dressed man with a monocle; two ballet costumes with tunics over tights.
• Folder 2. Women's costume designs (22 sheets): includes six "classic" or short tutus; five folk costumes, among them two Spanish and one Slavic; two designs with sleeves and bodices reminiscent of the eighteenth-century, although with knee- or calf-length skirts; five costumes ranging from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, among them a baton twirler and a little girl in pantalettes; three draped dresses evocative of the costumes worn in Leonide Massine's symphonic ballets; and a colored chalk drawing of a costume of indeterminate period and style.

Call Number

*MGZGD Bar 1-33

OCLC

824610582

Title

Irina Baronova collection of costume designs [graphic].

Imprint

[194-?]

Funding

Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Russian-born Irina Baronova, 1919-2008, began her dance career as one of the "baby ballerinas" discovered by choreographer George Balanchine in a Paris ballet studio in the 1930s. These designs are thought to date from the early 1940s, when she danced with Ballet Theatre and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The designs for the shoeshine boy and the man with the monocle may have been intended for Leonide Massine's ballet The New Yorker, produced by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1940; however, no equivalents have been located among photographs of that production. Other designs may be the work of Michel Baronov, Baronova's father, who had a flair for art. He adapted Leon Bakst's scene designs for Ballet Theatre's Princess Aurora (i.e., Aurora's wedding) in 1941 and Alexandre Benois's designs for the same company's revival of Petrouchka in 1942; both ballets featured his daughter as the leading ballerina.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Added Author

Baronova, Irina. Collector

Baronov, Michel. Associated name

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Added Title

Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Found In:

Irina Baronova collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZGD Bar 1-33