Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova
First edition. One of 325 numbered copies on Vélin d'Arches signed by Maurice de Brunhoff, this copy unjustified.
Beautiful copy of this superb edition paying tribute to the greatest dancer of the 20th century.

Exceptional edition with woodcuts by Galanis gathering the works of the greatest artists inspired by the incomparable star dancer including a frontispiece and seven drawings by Léon Bakst, three drawings by Alfred Stevens as well as works by Georges Barbier, Valentine Hugo, Valentin Sérov, Alexandre Jacovleff, Joseph Ur
ban, Diatchkoff, Constantin Korovine, Serge Solomko and Boris Anisfeld. The book is also illustrated with forty-three photographs by Van Riel, Saul Bransburg, Ira Hill, Goyzueta, Hutchinson, White, Matzene, Hoppé, Streletzky and reproductions of the statuettes representing the dancer made by Paul de Boulongne, Malvina Hoffman, Troubetzkoï, and Rosalès.
Heliogravures by Schützenberger after the painting by John Lavery, after Schuster-Woldan and after a photograph by Mishkin.

One of the most beautiful works on the golden age of dance.