Aleksandr Golovin costume designs for Firebird
Overview
Costume designs for the 1921 GATOB ballet production of ballet "Firebird"
Dates
- Creation: 1921
Language of Materials
Material is in Russian
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.3 linear feetInlcudes 24 costume designs in watercolor, pen and ink for the 1921 GATOB (Petrograd State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, former Maryinsky Ballet) production of the ballet Firebird, choreography by Fedor Lopukhov. Designs are numbered with autograph manuscript annotations with names of characters and names of perfomers on recto. All designs are matted, measurements without mats.
Biographical / Historical
Aleksandr IAkovlevich Golovin was a Russian artist and theater designer. He created his first set of costume designs for the original production of Michel Fokine's ballet "Firebird" in 1910 for the Ballets russes company. In 1921, he created a completely new set of costume designs for the new production by choreographer Fedor Lopukhov, for the State Ballet and Opera company, the former Maryinsky Ballet, in Petrograd. This new set was radically different from the Art Nouveau style of his earlier designs for the Diaghilev's enterprise. For the new Lopukhov's production, Golovin created costumes based on folklore traditions and Rusian historic dress.
Arrangement
Arranged by design number
Physical Location
pfd
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2004MT-73. Bequest of the Kilgour estate, 2001
Processing Information
Processed by Irina Klyagin, 2019
- Title
- Golovin, Aleksandr IAkovlevich, 1863-1930. Aleksandr Golovin costume designs for Firebird, 1921 (MS Thr 1921): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 May 21
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03182
Repository Details
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