SWEDISH BALLETS IN CONTEMPORARY ART (Les). Paris,... Lot 63

SWEDISH BALLETS IN CONTEMPORARY ART (Les). Paris, Éditions du Trianon, 1931. In-4, orange half-box, plexiglass boards decorated with an original painted composition, yellow head, untrimmed, cover and spine, case (B. Bichon). Edition illustrated with 14 large color stencils featuring sets and costumes, by Bonnard, Chirico, Foujita, Laprade, Fernand Léger, Steinlen, etc., and 64 photographs printed in heliogravure on 32 plates. The Swedish Ballets were a ballet company based in Paris from 1920 to 1925 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, under the direction of a Swedish industrialist and dance enthusiast Rolf de Maré (1888-1964). They were the result of the separation of Michel Fokine (1880-1942), dancer and choreographer, from Diaghilev's Ballets russes. The Swedish Jean Börlin (1893-1930), whose teacher Michel Fokine was in Stockholm, was the choreographer. The Company worked with librettists such as Paul Claudel (L'Homme et son désir), Pirandello, Blaise Cendrars, Picabia and Jean Cocteau. The music of the ballets is signed Honegger, Milhaud, Auric, Satie, Poulenc, or Cole Porter, who composed one of the first "jazz ballets" in history Within the Quota (1923). Unnumbered copy, very well bound by Bernard Bichon, a student of Mercher.