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Sketches by Valentine Gross, ca. 1913.\n\nThe figures in the centre of the page with their hands behind their heads, wearing high hats and jackets appear to represent the tall women in Scene 1 affectionately referred to as 'the storks' while the images round the edge may well be preliminary sketches of Chosen Maiden in the Danse Sacrale.  \n\nDiaghilev Ballets Russes <i>Le Sacre du Printemps,</i>also known as <i>The Rite of Spring</i> choreographed by Nijinsky and decor by Nicholas Roerich was first premiered in Paris at Théâtre de Champs-Elysées on 29 May 1913. \n\nThis sketch is part of the Valentine Gross Archive (THM/165), held by the V&amp;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 Diaghilev Ballets Russes in Paris and made preminary sketches during performances and rehearsals between 1909 and 1919.  She later worked them up into pencil or coloured drawings of various degrees of finish including illustrations and paintings.\r\n\nThe figures in this sheet feature on  pages 138 and 139 on <i>Nijinsky on Stage</i> by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Sheet of pencil sketches showing scene 2 of Vaslav Nijinsky's ballet <i>Le Sacre du Printemps</i>. Six full figure sketches of Maria Piltz as the Chosen Maiden, two head sketches  and, lower left, a group of the women. 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