PER KROHG (1889-1965) JEAN BÖRLIN. 1920. 61 1/2x91 inches, 156x321 cm. Chachoin, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration in margins and image; minor overpainting in margins. Two sheets. On October 25, 1920 the Ballet Suédois (Swedish Ballet) had their premiere performance in Paris. The Ballet Russe had been setting an Avant-garde standard for ballet in Paris since 1909, but Rolf de Mare, the impresario responsible for bringing the Swedish Ballet to Paris, and Jean Börlin, the principle dancer and choreographer, viewed the Ballet Russe as old fashioned. Under their direction, the Ballet Suédois employed composers and designers to work on their productions whose names read like a who's who of the Avant-garde art scene: Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Ferdinand Léger, Blaise Cendrars, Arthur Honegger, François Poulenc and others. Krohg, a prominent Norwegian painter, had studied in Paris with Henri Matisse between 1907 and 1909. Weill p. 271. this is the extremely rare larger format.
