1. Notes: 12 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Lubov Tchernicheva * as Zobiede in Mikhail Fokine’s ballet Scheherazade by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes,1910

   [caption from V&A] 

   photo  from LIFE [possibly by E.O.Hoppe *]

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   • Mikhail Fokine
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2. Notes: 41 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   In my yesterday’s Ophelia quest i ran into some old Hamlet posts of mine with John Austen illustrations *

   This lovely Scheherazade also comes from The Pictorial Arts

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3. Notes: 17 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade,1910

   via xoomer.virgilio.it

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   • ida rubinstein
   • leon bakst
   • scheherazade
   • ballets russes
    
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