Category: 1920s

Pierrot, 1925

Otton Engel’s :: Pierrot, 1925. Crayons on paper. Signed and dated: “Engel’s 1925”. Catalogue of the first “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1925, Nos. 208-09. OE (Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Formerly in the collection of Irina Malakhova.) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Nude from behind, 1923

N. Vysheslavtsev :: Nude from behind, 1923. Ink on paper. Signed and dated: “To dear Aleksei Sidorov, N. N. Vysheslavtsev, 1923”. GTG: Gosudarstvennaia Tret’iakovskaia galereia, State Tretiakov Gallery (formerly in the collection of Aleksei Sidorov). | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Alexander Rumnev, 1920s

Otton Engel’s :: A. Rumnev in one of L. Lukin’s choreographies, 1923. Pencil on paper. Inscribed and dated: “Chamber Theatre, Thursday, 7.30, 12/VI/1923”. Catalogue of the first “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1925, Nº 197. OE (Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Formerly in the collection of Irina Malakhova.) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
Hess Studio, Frankfurt :: A. Rumnev. Plastic study, 1923. Original print. Signed and dated on mount: “Hess, Frankfurt 1923”. Choreography by L. Lukin. Tournée of the Moscow Chamber Theatre, 1923. The reverse of an analogous print in the Lukin archive at GTsTMB carries the inscription: “To dear Lev Lukin with faith in his inimitable talent, 1923, A. Rumnev”. RGALI [Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva (Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow)]
source Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Oriental dance, 1920s

Otton Engel’s Oriental dance, mid-1920s. Collage and coloured paper on paper. Catalogue of the third “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1927, Nº 543. OE | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Egyptian prayer, 1920s

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov aka Nikolai Svishtov-Paola :: Egyptian prayer (A. Shapovalova), early 1920s. Original photographic print. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926, nº 299. RGALI. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Female nude, 1920

Atelier d’Ora ~ Benda :: Frauenakt – Rückenbild, 1920. Bromölumdruck (in Braun). | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Role of Gesture in a Pose, 1920s

Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Mila Cirul, Rustic Dance, 1925

Atelier K. Kolliner (Wien) :: Mira Cirul (sic) in Rustic Dance, 1925. Music by N. Medtner and costumes by G. Kirsta. Artist’s original print. Collection of Pavel Khoroshilov, Moscow. Second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Nicoletta Misler