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Geoffrey Whitworth
The Art of Nijinsky
First American Edition
$200
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New York, McBride Nast & Co., 1914
Small 8vo. 110 pp (last page uncut). 10 color plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) by Dorothy Mullock. Brick-red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine. Minor wear to extremities; light fading to spine; small white spots along front fore-edge; light tanning to endpapers; a very good copy.
Considered the earliest full-length critical study of the famed ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century, with the dancer’s own input. Accompanied with Dorothy Mullock’s watercolor plates which vividly capture Nijinsky’s physical grace and theatrical presence.
Mullock’s plates, created during the Ballets Russes’ transformative impact on London audiences in the early 1910s, are significant for their historical context, picturing Nijinsky's performances that revolutionized ballet.
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