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AFTER PABLO PICASSO BALLETS RUSSES. 1939. 39 3/8x24 3/4 inches. Watelet-Arbelot, Paris. Condition B: losses, tears and creases in margins; pinholes in corners. Paper. Image affixed to poster. Serge Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes in 1909 and premiered with a revolutionary show and first season at the Theatre Chatelet that transfixed Paris and transformed the artistic landscape. For years they performed at the Theatre des Champs Elysees, on the cutting edge of all the artistic disciplines featuring (among many other talents) music by Stravinsky, sets and costumes designed by the best Cubist artists and some the great ballet dancers of all time. In 1917, at the suggestion of Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design the sets and costumes for Parade. The image on this poster is a lithograph after a costume drawing of Picasso's which the Ballet Russes used on their posters. Both in Paris and Monte Carlo (where they also performed) they had typographic posters printed listing the program of their season, around a blank space into which they would glue this image.
