Objects

Tapered vessel with two handles, glazed in red, black, and white, depicting a dancing woman in a long sleeveless dress.

Skyphos: Dancing Maenad

Page spread from a Russian publication with printed text and a black-and-white drawing of a lakeside landscape.

Publication: The Stone Age in Lake Piros

Manuscript: "Serov and Myself in Greece"

Painting of cattle and sheep with a shirtless male figure on one side, grasping a ram by the horn, and on the other side a standing female figure wearing a diaphanous dress and gesturing with one hand toward the man.

Set Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Drawing of trees, large bushes, and shrubs alongside a high cliff.

Set Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Painting of tall trees situated along the banks of a river, surrounding a small man and woman. A small structure with a peaked roof like a Greek temple appears in the center distance.

Set Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Painting of tall, coniferous trees in green shades being swept away by a strong gust of wind.

Set Design: Narcisse?

Statuette of a woman's body in a heavily draped dress, missing head, feet, and one arm.

Statuette: Female Figure

Photograph depicting two large, fluted columns and a woman wearing an ancient-style dress standing beside them. She faces the camera with her head turned to her right to face the sun.

Photograph: Isadora Duncan at the Parthenon

Three-piece suit. Colors on the garment are orange, pale orange, green, and black. Patterns include architectural elements such as a painted column dickey, stone-style applique, and squiggly lines on the trousers.

Costume: Le Bal

Painting of a faceless man with a top hat and cane wearing a tight-fitting uniform decorated with images of a broken column and other architectural elements, as well as a brick-style pattern below elbows and knees.

Costume Design: Le Bal

Photograph of a ballerina striking a pose with her hand above her head, wearing a dress with a column painted on it.

Photograph: Felia Doubrovska in Le Bal

Painting of an arched passageway wedged into a lowland area of a hill and flanked by a broken column.

Set Element Design: Le Bal

Painting of a cloudy, windy, and gloomy blue-gray sky with one cloud holding a brighter color in the center of the picture. Two abstracted architectural features frame the left and right sides of the image.

Set Element Design: Le Bal

Brightly colored painting of a palace setting. Pillars, gardens, an animal statue, as well as a pyramid can be seen from the inside. The design is slightly abstracted, but still figurative.

Set Design: Cléopâtre

Painting of the sea shore. There is a ship to the far right and a giant, bearded male figure at center in the sky, gesturing to the side with one arm and throwing jagged white thunderbolts down at the sea with the other.

Set Design: Bacchus et Ariane

Statuette of a dancing young man. The figure is missing his legs below the knees, and one arm.

Statuette: Youth Dancing

Statue of a headless male figure turning his torso. Arms and legs are missing too, but the dynamic pose shows the figure looking at his tail (also missing).

Statue: Young Satyr Turning to Look at His Tail

Handwritten dance notation on musical staff paper. Notes in Russian appear at top and left side.

Dance Notation: L’Après-midi d’un Faune

Page spread from a printed musical composition with handwritten notes in Russian.

Score: "Prelude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune"

Bust of an unsmiling man with elongated face, prominent brows, and a laurel crown on his head. The figure is recognizable as Vaslav Nijinsky in character as the Faun.

Bronze: Vaslav Nijinsky in L’Après-midi d’un Faune