Author: Kochno, Boris
Title: Diaghilev And The Ballets Russes
Description: Harper & Row, New York, 1970, 1st US edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. [x]+293pp, 70 colour & 312 b/w illustrations, index, price clipped dustjacket [ by the UK publishers Allen Lane to removed the US price ] worn along the edges & a little marked, the book itself near fine. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A study of the Russian Ballet imprssario at work, as told by his long time close associate Boris Kochno. The illustrations in the book are photographic studies of the great dancers of the Ballet Russe along with designs by the painters Diaghilev managed to persuade to design sets & costumes - Picasso, Braque, Miró, Ernst etc.

Keywords: ballet, art, modern art, arts,