boris lipnitzki

paul poiret et joséphine baker lors de la fête de sainte-catherine, chez le couturier français. paris, 25 novembre 1925 

serge lifar in icare, 1935

deauville, 1937

capeline de paille valois

coco chanel, 1936

aerodynamic locomotive at the lyons station, paris, 1937

(how beautiful is that train?)

erté, paris, 1924

concours d’élégance avec une jeune femme au volant d’une chrysler, paris, 1938

james joyce 1934

madame grès designing a dress for macy's, 1936

tsuguharu foujita, paris, ca. 1925

jeune femme sortant d'une voiture, janvier 1934

danielle darrieux, 1937

jean-paul sartre, 1946

les mannequins de cez patou, paris, 1927

on the banks of the seine, paris, 1937

all photographs © boris lipnitzki

ballet russe - ballet russe de monte carlo

ballet russe de montecarlo

tamara geva, lubov tchernicheva, alice nikitina & alexandra danilova with serge lifar as the telegraph boy in la pastorale, 1926

le train bleu, stage frontcloth by picasso for the diaghilev ballet russes, 1924

léonide massine as pulcinella in pulcinella, photographed by e.o. hoppe, 1920 

anna Ppavlova in costume for russian dance, london, ca.1910

alexandra danilova and serge lifar in apollon musagète, ca. 1928

lubov tchernicheva in thamar, ballets russes, ca. 1930s

chatelet gran de saison de paris, ballet russe by jean cocteau

michel fokine and tamara karsavina in the firebird, ca. 1910

mikhail mordkin, diaghilev’s ballet russe dancer photographed by nickolas muray, 1922 

ballet russe de monte carlo 1939-1940 season. 

souvenir program by henri matisse

andre eglevsky &  jeannette lauret in shéhérazade, ballet russe de monte carlo 

mikhail fokine & vera fokina in carnaval 

music by robert schumann, choregraphy by mikhail fokine, design by léon bakst, ca. 1910

costume for cléopâtre in the ballets russes production of cléopâtre, 1918

 roméo et juliette, costume design by joan miró, ca. 1926

jean cocteau’s ballet le train blue,  costumes by coco chanel, 1924

léonide massine and alexandra danilova in le pas d'acier by diaghilev's ballets russes, paris, france, photographed by sasha, 1927

valentina koshuba in les noces petrouchka, photographed by edward steichen, may 1929

hand programme for the 1941-42 season of the ballet russes de monte carlo,  cover by salvador dalí

vaslav nijinski,  les orientales,  la danse siamoise, 1910

serge lifar, icare, photographed by boris lipnitzki, 1935