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

leonard lauder donates cubist collection

woman in an armchair (eva) by pablo picasso, 1913

bouteille de rhum (bottle of rum) by georges braque, spring 1914

the typographer by fernand leger, 1918

leonard lauder

heir to estee lauder's cosmetics fortune, philanthropist leonard lauder has pledged his renowned collection of cubist works to the metropolitan museum of art. the collection, that museum director thomas campbell said is "truly transformational", includes 78 pieces from pablo picasso, georges braque, juan gris & fernand leger & is valued at over $1 billion. the collection is expected to be presented in the fall of 2014.

the story-tellers, part 43

elizabeth taylor dressed as an odalisque, photographed by firooz zahedi, 1976.

la grande odalisque by jean-auguste dominique, 1814.

odalisque by achille jacques-jean marie devéria, 1800-1857.

odalisque I photographed by horst p. horst, 1943.

la grande odalisque (after ingres) by pablo picasso, 1907.

kiki de montparnasse en odalisque photographed by man ray, 1925.

odalisque by françois boucher, 1745.

odalisque seated with arms raised, green striped chair by henri matisse, 1923.

a modern odalisque photographed by e. donald roberts jr., ca. 1894.

the story-tellers, part 42

jasper johns in his studio on pearl street with flag, photographed by robert rauschenberg, 1954-55.

jean-paul riopelle in his atelier, photographed by denise colomb, 1953.

frida kahlo in the (mexico city) british hospital, photographed by hans gutmann (aka juan guzmán), 1951.

lucian freud painting leigh bowery, photographed by bruce bernard, 1982.

constantin brancusi studio, taillant a la scie une colonne sans fin,  ca. 1924-1925.

henri matisse dans son appartement de nice, fin des années 1910.

andy warhol at the first factory, east 47th street, nyc, photographed by ugo mulas, 1964.

picasso sur un escabeau, un pinceau à la main devant guernica, dans l'atelier des grands augustins, paris, 1937.

enid yandell with pallas athena, ca. 1897.

helen frankenthaler in her studio.

jackson pollock in his studio, springs, long island, new york, ca. 1950

la femmes de pablo picasso - jacqueline roque

jacqueline with flowers, 1954

jacqueline de profil droit III, 1958

jacqueline self portrait

picasso & roque in his studio

jacqueline roque, 1954

jacqueline & picasso

jacqueline with hands crossed, 1954

jacqueline & picasso at home

portrait de jacqueline de profil III, 1959

picasso & jacqueline

picasso was 72 went he met jacqueline rogue who was 27 at the time. she worked as a saleswoman at madoura pottery in vallauris where picasso's ceramic works were created. she would become his second wife after they married in secret in 1961.
her image began to appear in picasso's paintings in may of 1954. he would create more than 400 portraits of her in the next 20 years. these portraits are characterized by an exaggerated neck and feline face, distortions of roque's features.  she was a mysterious figure and reclusive figure during her time with picasso - she said of him "you don't cast a shadow over the sun."
roque had been married earlier to an engineer, andré hutin whom she had a daughter her daughter cathy with. when she met picasso in 1953 she was wary of committing herself. "i knew about his reputation as far as women went. pablo was old enough to be my grandfather," she confided. "i'd just had a painful divorce, and i had cathy." picasso brought her a red rose every day, wrote poems for her & told her he had waited until his old age to find out what love really was. after six months she finally gave in & they became lovers. picasso found in her a mistress, mother, sister, accomplice & muse.
jacqueline was no pushover, though, & laid down the law quite early on. she warned him: "you have to know that if one day there is another muse, i'll congratulate her, i'll send her flowers. but i'll be out the door." she was the only love he tolerated in his studio when he was painting & there are many photos of the two of them together there. he would scribble his love for her on the back of canvases; messages such as "for jacqueline's saint valentine's day" or "for jacqueline, for her day, her husband." he could be cruel to her as well - she sometimes called him "the abominable snowman".
he warned her that there would be conflicts ahead given his wealth: "if one day i fall ill, the others won't let you care for me." nevertheless she was not prepared for the infighting that would come. his children, claude & paloma, turned against her, accusing her of holding their father hostage.  three of his children, including paulo, his son by olga, sued him in an attempt to ensure they inherited his fortune. under the law at the time, they stood to inherit nothing, as they were illegitimate.  he later remarked: "if i'd known how things would turn out with my children, i'd have done better to piss against a street light."
during the last two years of picasso's life, she was at his beside day & night. she began to drink enormously being affected by the sight of her husband dying, her difficult relations with her daughter, cathy, & the fact that her former father in law was dying of cancer. she felt alone & became depressed.
in april 1973, on the eve of his death picasso said to jacqueline: "have i got enough canvases & paintbrushes? tomorrow i'm going to start painting." the following day as the doctor gave him an injection to help him breathe, picasso asked him if he was married. the doctor replied he wasn't. "you've made a mistake; it's useful. you should" he said. he then turned to jacqueline, who was holding his hand, and whispered: "my wife, it's marvellous." they were his last words. for six days & nights she watched over the coffin & buried him in front of the grand staircase at the castle entrance.
after his death she would fight with his children over the distribution of his esate. she would help establish the musée picasso in madrid. she killed herself with a gun 13 years after the death of picasso in mougins.