#jacques Émile blanche

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Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) - Vaslav Nijinsky in ‘Danse Siamoise’

Oil on canvas. Painted c.1911.

87 x 47.6 inches, 221 x 121 cm. Estimate: US$1,000,000-1,500,000.

Sold Christie’s, New York, 20 Oct 2022 for US$2,700,000 incl B.P.

Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), of the Ballets Russes, ‘le Dieu de la danse’, is regarded as one of the most talented dancers of the 20th century. He is depicted here in the Leon Bakst-designed costume for la Danse Siamoise, which was one of two solos he performed in Les Orientales, the other being Kobold, which was danced to a piano piece by Grieg and orchestrated by Stravinsky.

Blanche painted other works of Nijinsky but nearly all were lost at sea when the ship they were on, possibly the Lusitania, was torpedoed and sunk in 1915 whilst en route to New York.

Part of the Ann & Gordon Getty Collection sold to benefit the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for the Arts. All lots appear to have been sold without reserve. This part of the collection (Important Pictures and Decorative Arts) is available  as a free pdf (174.3 MB).  Simply pop the following into a new window:

dubdubdubdot   christies.com/PDF/catalog/2022/NYR21604_SaleCat.pdf

Once  you’ve downloaded it, taking it down to 60% will give you a double-page  view like with the actual catalogue. Just enlarge it to read the bits you’re interested in. This might not apply if you’re not an old fogey like me. I’ve been putting up a few of these paintings so you can ignore this chunk of those posts. Go on, it’s a free art book!

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Portrait of the Novelist Colette (1905, oil on canvas) | Jacques-Émile Blanche

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Jacques-Émile Blanche - Portrait de la Comtesse de Greffulhe (ca. 1890)

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Le Chérubin de Mozart, ca. 1904 Jacques-Émile Blanche

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The Little Girl With Hydrangeas (Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1887)

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Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)

Interior with flowers and tea set

oil on canvas

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Lucie Esnault Reading a Book by JACQUES-ÉMILE BLANCHE

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Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861–1942) with Raphael de Ochoa

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Young Girl after a Masked Ball (1906) by Jacques-Émile Blanche

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Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942)

Portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche of Ida Rubinstein as Zobeïde in Schéhérazade

Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960) was born in Kharkov to a wealthy Jewish family. When her parents died, she was sent to live with her aunt in St. Petersburg, where she was introduced to the prominent artists of the city. She trained first as an actor, and then engaged Michel Fokine to give her ballet lessons and to provide the choreography for her projected produc­tion of Salomé, in which she was to take the title role. With music by Alexander Glazunov and costumes by Léon Bakst, Salomé was to have been performed in November 1908, but the production was banned and did not take place. This marked the first of Rubinstein’s many col­labor­ations with Bakst, who remained her friend until the artist’s death. Rubinstein made a sensation in her appear­ance with the Ballets Russes in the initial 1909 season as Cleopatra, and again in 1910 in the role of Zobeïde, the Shah’s favorite wife, in the ballet Schéhérazade. Rubinstein did finally perform the role of Salome, as actor and dancer in the Oscar Wilde play, in Paris, in 1912.

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Jacques-Émile Blanche - Portrait de Jean Cocteau (1913)

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Mademoiselle Meuriot sur son poney, 1889 Jacques-Émile Blanche

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Jacques-Émile Blanche

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Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942) Reading Woman, ca. 1900 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861–1942)

Bouquet d’iris blanches et de tulipes rouges,, ca. 1911

Oil on canvas