Vintage Russian postcard depicting Russian actor Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov [Васи́лий Ива́нович Кача́лов] in Anathema, a play by Russian playwright Leonid Andreyev at the Moscow Art Theater. [ca. 1900] akademic.ruRussian actor Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov in the title role of Leonid Andreyev’s Anathema. Kachalov led the so-called Kachalov Group within the Moscow Art Theater. [Ryckoff Collection]. | src Getty ImagesRussian actor Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov in the title role of Leonid Andreyev’s Anathema. (ca. 1900) | src Getty imagesК. С. Малевич. Василий Качалов в пьесе Л. Андреева “Анатэма”. 1908 г. Единственный пробный оттиск гг. Коллекция С. Григорьянца | Vasily Kachalov in Anathema by Kazimir Malevich (1908) | src wikimedia commonsVasily Ivanovich Kachalov by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1908) | src twitter
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) ::L’Été-Chat sur une Balustrade (top) & L’Hiver-Chat sur un Coussin (bottom), 1909 Lithographs in colors on heavy wove paper and wove paper backed with Japan, printed by R. Engelmann, Paris. | src Bonhams
Walter Schnackenberg :: The dancer Carmen Tortola Valencia, 1912. Watercolour, brush and India ink and opaque white over pencil on paper. | src Grisebach Autumn Auctions 2020
Walter Schnackenberg :: Ballet und Pantomime ‘Primula Vera’ (Lo Hesse), plate # 7, 1920. | src 1st dibs “Schnackenberg was a regular contributor to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.” (quoted from source)
Kassian Golejzovsky, Kasjan’s ballet. Poster, first half of the 1920s. Pencil, collage, white lead on plywood. [K. Golejzovskij, Il balletto di Kasjan K. Golejzovskij, manifesto, metà anni venti. Matita, collage, biacca su compensato]. | src Nicoletta Misler: L’Arte del Movimento in Russia 1920-1930
Lepidoptera. Études de lépidoptérologie comparée by Charles Oberthür (1845-1924). Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Rennes : Impr. Oberthür. | src Smithsonian Libraries on IA