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Firebird curtain design by Chagall

Stage curtain design, painting, 1945, for l'Oiseau de Feu or The Firebird, in gouache, ink, pastel, coloured pencils and gold paper, on board, by Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, in a private collection, copyright ADAGP. Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Jewish heritage. Throughout his career he designed many sets for theatres and opera houses, and music is a major theme in his work. In 1945 he was asked to create sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet's production of Firebird, a ballet and orchestral concert work by Stravinsky, originally written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Please contact ADAGP Paris for Artist's reproduction right - Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Stage curtain design, painting, 1945, for l'Oiseau de Feu or The Firebird, in gouache, ink, pastel, coloured pencils and gold paper, on board, by Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, in a private collection, copyright ADAGP. Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Jewish heritage. Throughout his career he designed many sets for theatres and opera houses, and music is a major theme in his work. In 1945 he was asked to create sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet's production of Firebird, a ballet and orchestral concert work by Stravinsky, originally written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Please contact ADAGP Paris for Artist's reproduction right - Picture by Manuel Cohen