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Pablo Picasso. Rideau pour le Ballet Mercure. 1924.

Gaig (after Kennerley), Vignette from a ballet entitled Electra (Etching), 1849.

Giorgio de Chirico. Set Design for Ballet Russes' Le Bal. 1929.

Vignette from a ballet entitled ‘Electra’ [Etching by Gaig, after Kennerley], 1849.

Charles Nicolas Cochin, Ballet at Versailles (The Princess of Navarre), 1745.

Court ballet, Vlasislav Hall, Prague Castle (Czech Republic), 1617.

Charles Nicolas Cochin, Ballet La Princess d'Elide, Palace of Versailles, published in 'Les Plaisirs de L'Isle', Paris (France), c. 1674.

Le rideau de scène de Picasso pour' le Ballet 'Parade' réaliste. (1917) The word 'Surrealism' was first employed as a descriptive in critique of this war-time production, with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau, 'Parade' premiered on Friday, May 18, 1917 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Costumes and sets were designed by Pablo Picasso, choreography was performed by Léonide Massine. Conducted by Ernest Ansermet and composed between 1916 and 1917 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. [Le Centre Pompidou de Metz]

Igor Stravinsky

Diaghilev, Nijinsky and Stravinsky. Anonymous. 1914.