Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet L’Aprés-midi d’un Faune. Modeled by Lady Una Vincenzo Troubridge. Bronze on wood base, 1913. Howard D. Rothschild Collection. MS Thr 414.1 (80). Bequest, 1989. |
Portrait bust by Una Vincenzo Troubridge of Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet L’Après-midi d’un Faune Reportedly this is one of four bronze castings from a plaster original that was in the possession of the Ballets Russes dancer Lydia Sokolova. Sokolova had discovered it, abandoned and unrecognized, in a London antique shop. With the permission of the artist, copies were made. (The plaster copy is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.) |