Research Catalog

Title

Sketches [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

• 7 drawings : pencil, b&w; 28 x 28 cm. or smaller.
• 1 drawing : ink, wash, b&w ;

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Alternative Title

Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Genre/Form

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 began her dance career as one of the "baby ballerinas" discovered by choreographer George Balanchine in a Paris dance studio in the 1930s. These sketches may be the work of her father Michel Baronov, who had a flair for art, and may date from the early 1940s, when he adapted designs for ballets she performed with Ballet Theatre and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Among his designs for that period were adaptations after Alexandre Benois for the ballet Petrouchka, which was set at a Russian fair and included clown-like and grotesque characters similar to those seen in these sketches.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Irina Baronova collection. Graphics.

Contents

Eight sketches, including six cartoonlike drawings of men's heads, four of them full-face depictions of a bald bearded man who is grinning in one sketch and winking in another. These four, along with a sketch of two grinning clowns' heads, suggest but cannot be firmly linked to characters in Michel Fokine's ballet Petrouchka. A different bearded man is shown in profile. The remaining two sketches represent a centaur (seen from the chin down) and a woman in period costume with an elaborate headdress or wig, ruff, and skirt with a train.

Call Number

*MGZGD Anon Ske 1-8

OCLC

824610594

Title

Sketches [graphic].

Imprint

[194-?]

Funding

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

Biography

Russian-born Irina Baronova began her dance career as one of the "baby ballerinas" discovered by choreographer George Balanchine in a Paris dance studio in the 1930s. These sketches may be the work of her father Michel Baronov, who had a flair for art, and may date from the early 1940s, when he adapted designs for ballets she performed with Ballet Theatre and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Among his designs for that period were adaptations after Alexandre Benois for the ballet Petrouchka, which was set at a Russian fair and included clown-like and grotesque characters similar to those seen in these sketches.

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. Associated name

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 Anon Ske 1-8