Ballet

[Cecil Beaton]


Beaton's personal account of his love affair with ballet. The book covers Beaton's lifelong interest in ballet, from watching The Palace Girls when young, through the Ballets Russes and Sadler's Wells, to designing productions for The Royal Ballet. His reminiscences and artistic comments are accompanied by his photographs and drawings of the great stars and choreographers of ballet from the first half of the 20th century - Lydia Lopokova, Leonide Massine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Kyra Nijinska, Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Christian Berard and Lord Berners.


Cecil Beaton. Wingate. London. [1951]. American edition. Hardback, octavo; red boards, backed with black cloth with gilt title and figure to spine, dust jacket. 86 pages. 64 b&w hors-texte plates, numerous b&w text illustrations, colour illustrated title-page. English. 230 x 155mm. 0.5kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, browning to spine, small 1cm tear to centre of spine repaired with tape to verso, slight toning to jacket, price-clipped; off-setting to endpapers.