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Set and costume designs for ballet and theater

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Alexander Schouvaloff, introduction Serge Lifar

General editor Simon De Pury

The Vendome Press, New York 1987, 268 pages, 24,5x30cm, ISBN 0-865-076-4

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During his lifetime the late Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired a collection of over fifty drawings - largely of set and costume designs - reflecting the theatre of the first half of the twentieth century, and particularly the ballet, during what was surely its most exciting and innovative period. Twenty-two of these drawings are by Leon Bakst, perhaps the most famous of all theatrical designers, whose revolutionary designs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes played such a major part in the impact that company made during the years 1909-1929.

1920 Art Deco Sunburst design, Le Bonheur du Jour, by George Barbier. 

A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used. Traditional sunburst motifs usually show the rays narrowing as they get further from the centre; from the later 19th century they often get wider, as in the Japanese Rising Sun Flag, which is more appropriate in optical terms. (x) 

George Barbier (1882-1932)

le feu – georges barbier – 1925