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This print is based on the painting <i>Prima ballerina and dresser</i> exhibited at the Alpine Club, London, in 1922, but with the composition reversed. The figure in the foreground is Lydia Lopokova (a principal dancer with Diaghilev's 'Ballets Russes'). She is wearing the striped drawers designed by Alexandre Benois as part of the costume for the dancer in Stravinsky's ballet <i>Petruska</i>.The dresser in the background is sewing or perhaps mending the dancer's dress.","physicalDescription":"View of an interior with a woman in the background, seen in profile, sewing a flounced dress or petticoat. In the foreground is a seated woman, with her head turned towards the woman sewing. 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