Frederic Stafford
Stage Design for Balanchine's "Liebesträume"

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Stage Design for Balanchine's "Liebesträume"
Datec. 1931
MediumWatercolor, pen and ink, color pencil, gouache with gold over graphite and blue ballpoint pen on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 14 1/4 × 21 13/16 in. (36.2 × 55.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in memory of Efrem Kurtz
Object number95.254
Non exposé

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Spectacle: Turn-of-the-Century Entertainment" The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, July 29, 2023-March 3, 2024 [Fifth Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
recto bottom left edge in blue ballpoint pen: COLISEUM[underlined] GAUZE for Balanchine LEIBSETRAUME, upper right margin in ink: Width 60' for / 55' / opening / x / 22' high
verso top in green ink: 1[circled] Gauze rises to / Fly away set pieces in Muslim / Settings for Chopin, verso bottom in green ink: 2[circled] reveals H.M.V. Portable for Paul Whiteman arrangement / of LEIBSTRAUME
recto right margin reading vertically in ink: Frederic Stafford
verso three sketches in pencil with titles: Panel, French Window, Door with / reveal / & overmantel

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