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Alexandre BENOIS
Costume design for the Directress of the Convent
(La Directrice du Couvent)
(1939)
from the ballet
Graduation Ball
, no. 1 in Perpetuum Mobile sequence, Ballets Russes, Sydney, 1940
Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on buff paper
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Colonel W. de Basil, 1940
© Alexandre Benois/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on buff paper
Measurements
31.9 × 24.1 cm irreg. (sheet)
Accession Number
1069-4
Department
International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Colonel W. de Basil, 1940
© Alexandre Benois/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Advertising, Communication and Graphic Design
Costume
Subjects (specific)
blue colours
bonnets (hats)
brown colours
conceptual drawings
costume design
dresses (garments)
women (female humans)
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