MARKOVA IN THE COSTUME DESIGNED BY MATISSE MARKOVA (Dame Alicia, 1910-2004, Ballerina and Choreographer)

Fine photo by Maurice Seymour signed and inscribed in red ink, “for Janet Stoughton with my best wishes”, showing her head and shoulders with her hands clasped in front of her, 10” x 8”, no place,

The ballet Rouge et Noir (1939), choreographed by Leonard Massine and set to Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Symphony, had scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse. This was not their first collaboration but it was the first time that Matisse had used a new technique with ‘cut-out’ costumes. Matisse went so far as to pin cut-out shapes directly onto Alicia Markova.
Billed in Hollywood’s golden age as “the photographer to the celebrities,” Maurice Seymour was actually two brothers: Maurice (1900-1993) and Seymour (1902-1995) Zeldman. Born in Russia, the pair came to Chicago in 1920, and nine years later opened their own studio - Maurice Seymour at the top of250225 the St. Clair Hotel. Bestowing a dramatically highlighted glamour on the city, they photographed film, theatre, and radio stars, judges and politicians, and the international luminaries of ballet, beginning, in 1934, with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. When Seymour Zeldman moved to New York in the 1950s, both men legally changed their names to Maurice Seymour and continued to photograph into the 1970s.

Item Date:  1941

Stock No:  42319      £225

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