'DIAGHILEV'S DESIGNERS' A RAVISHING EXHIBIT

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 17, 1988| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Diaghilev's Designers: The Serge Lifar Collection of

Ballet Set and Costume Designs

At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., through Sept.

25. HARTFORD - In 1929, Serge Diaghilev, the great impresario who had astonished the West with the blazing colors and fiery dancing of the Ballets Russes, died in Venice, a city as glamorous as his own life had been. In 1933, a large collection of set and costume designs created for Diaghilev by artists from ...

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