Salomé: portrait of Tamara Karsavina (1914) by George Barbier.
A slight return to the Russian ballet, and another Barbier portrait. Tamara Karsavina danced lead roles for the Ballets Russes, most notably with Nijinsky in the original performances of The Firebird. The pictures here are from La Tragedie de Salome, a ballet with music by Florent Schmitt, and costumes based on Beardsley’s illustrations by Sergei Sudeikin, another member of the Diaghilev circle.
Tamara Karsavina as Salomé in the Beecham Russian ballet season, 1913.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The Salomé archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• George Barbier’s Nijinsky