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Sketch by Valentine Gross, ca. 1912.\n\nDiaghilev Ballets Russes <i>L'Après-midi d'un faune</i> (<i>Faune</i>), was first premiered in Paris at Théâtre du Châtelet on 29 May 1912, according to <i>Diaghilev and The Golden Age of The Ballets Russes 1909 - 1929</i>, edited by Jane Pritchard, first published by V&amp;A Publishing in 2010. \n\nThe sketches are 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\r\nSome of the sketches feature in the book <i>Nijinsky on Stage</i> by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971. This study features in the book on page 94. 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