GEORGE BARBIER ORIGINAL POCHOIR "NIJINSKY" 1913...VERY RARE

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BARBIER, Georges (1882-1932) Color pochoir from Barbier's first series of illustrations, " Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky" . Translated by Cyril William Beaumont. London: La Belle Édition for C.W. Beaumont & Co, 1913. EDITION OF 400 COPIES, PRINTED ON VELLUM PAPER. 'The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by Nijinsky in his famous characters.In excellent condition, the full sheet measures 12 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches.Guaranteed as described.Please email with any questions. Born in Nantes, Barbier came to Paris in 1908. He enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens for two years. He then abandoned Academic studies and followed his own instincts which took him to the Louvre, where he admired Greek and Etruscan vases, Tanagra figurines, and Egyptian artifacts. He found likeminded friends among poets and writers and embarked on joint publications of artists’books in limited editions, illustrated with his delicate drawings and watercolors. Théophil Gautier, Paul Verlaine, and Charles Baudelaire were among the authors he collaborated with. In 1919 he designed costumes for Maurice Rostand’s Casanova , from 1922-24 he worked with Erté on the Bal du Grand Prix at the Paris Opera, and in his later years he designed - again with Erté - costumes for the Folies read more

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