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The scene shown is in 'Petrushka's cell' where the Old Showman has pushed the Ballerina in to the excitement of Petrushka who dances with great excitement at her arrival.\n\n<i>Petrushka</i> (also transliterated <i>Petrouchka</i>) was first performed by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris at Théâtre du Châtelet on 13 June 1911. It was choregraphed by Mikhail Fokine to music by Igor Stravinsky with designs by Alexandre Benois.\r\n\r\nThis sketch is part of the Valentine Gross Archive (THM/165), held by the V&A which contains research material and artwork, including sketches, studies, drawings, pastels and illustrations.\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 <i>Nijinsky on Stag</i>e by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971. This sketch represents Karsavina and Petrushka in his cell in Scene II and features in the book on page 79.","physicalDescription":"Pencil sketch on a page from a sketch book of Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role of Mikhail Fokine's ballet <i>Petrushka</i>,with Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina.  It shows Petrouchka downstage executing a leap, his left arm straight up in the air, his right arm at an angle to his body pointing behind him.  He is wearing a belted tunic and checked trousers. In the background on the left is the figure of the ballerina in front of the door of the cell. There are very faint pencil markings verso. 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