Name: Paul Raoul Larthe, 20th century
Brand: Costume design for Serge Lifar as Icarus
Price: 400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Paul Raoul Larthe, 20th century
Costume design for Serge Lifar as Icarus
signed 'Paul R Larthe' (lower right) and inscribed 'ICARE. Serge Lifar' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm.)

with Gallery of the Arts, London, where purchased by Mrs A. Norman.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1990s.

London, Gallery of the Arts, A Prospect of Ballet, no. 37.

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Serge Lifar was a Ukrainian-born, French ballet dancer, choreographer and was one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. In 1929, at the age of twenty-four, Lifar become director of the Paris Opéra Ballet and began the rebirth of ballet in France. Lifar created many successful ballets for the company, including Icare in 1935.

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