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This production is set in the carnival atmosphere of a pre-Lenten fair in 19th century St. Petersburg. \r\n\r\nThis sketch is part of the Valentine Gross Archive (THM/165), held by the V&A Department of Theatre and Performance. Valentine Gross Archive contains research material and artwork, including sketches, studies, drawings, pastels and illustrations. Only the artwork materials have been catalogued with museum numbers and given item level descriptions found in the Search the Collections webpage. \r\n\r\nValentine Gross, a.k.a. Valentine Hugo, was a French art student in Paris in the 1910s. She became a ballet enthusiast, illustrator, researcher and painter. Valentine Gross witnessed annual seasons of Diaghlev Ballets Russes in Paris and made preminary sketches during performances and rehearsals between 1909 and 1914.  She later worked them up into pencil or coloured drawings of various degrees of finish including illustrations and paintings.\r\n\r\nSome of the sketches feature in the book Nijinsky on Stage by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971. This sketch represents Petrushka in his cell in frustration or in despairin Scene II and features in the book on page 78.","physicalDescription":"Pencil sketch on paper of Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role of Mikhail Fokine's ballet <i>Petrushka</i>, 1911.  Studies of Petrouchka in four different poses wearing a belted tunic and checked trousers. In the first sketch on the left he stands with his head bent to his right shoulder, his hands straight in front of him and his right leg crossed over his left;  in the next two sketches he is hanging with his head bowed forward, as if the marionette is being suspended from the shoulder strings; in the sketch nearest the right edge his hands are in the air as if he has come to life. There is a pencil sketch verso. 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Valentine Gross drew many sketches of the dancers during their performance in Paris, capturing the movement and costumes of famous dancers including Nijinsky.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Pencil sketch made by Valentine Gross of Vaslav Nijinsky in Scene II in the title role of <i>Petrushka,</i> Diaghilev Ballets Russes, Paris, ca. 1911","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Valentine Gross drew many sketches of Diaghilev's dancers in his Ballets Russes Company in Paris.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Nijinsky, Vaslav","id":"N1294"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":["Petrushka","Petrouchka"],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.632-1989"],"accessionNumberNum":"632","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1989,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Archive number","id":"THES54576"},"number":"THM/165"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LV8969"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2005-03-10","availableToBook":true}}