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Gemälde Claude Bessy Ballerina Etoile 1960

Painting of the ballerina Claude Bessy. She is wearing a white tutu and garland of roses. The stage is decorated with turquoise flowers and leaves.  Ca. 1956/1960. Original wooden frame.  Mlle. Bessy (born in Paris in 1932) is a famous French ballerina. She trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School from the age of ten, the youngest student ever admitted, and joined the Paris Opera Ballet at age 13, the youngest danseuse ever admitted.  In 1956 she was promoted to étoile, the Ballet's highest rank. Bessy was closely associated with Serge Lifar and created leading roles in his 1951 Snow White, 1955 Noces fantastiques and 1958 Daphnis and Chloe. She worked with John Cranko, who made his 1955 La Belle Hêlène on her, and George Skibine, who made a second Daphnis and Chloe on Bessy in 1959. Bessy was featured in Gene Kelly's film Invitation to the Dance (1956), and four years later he created Pas de dieux at the Paris Opera for her. She also made many television appearances. Bessy has staged ballets for the Comédie Française and Opéra Comique, dances for the musical My Fair Lady (1984) and continues to stage the ballets of Lifar throughout Europe. As director of the Paris Opera Ballet School she introduced profound reforms to the teaching regime which led to the birth of a new generation of highly technical dancers like Sylvie Guillem, Patrick Dupond, Élisabeth Platel, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, and succeeded in organising the construction of a new school building in Nanterre inaugurated in 1987.
DIESER ARTIKEL WURDE VERKAUFT
Signatur / Marken Old label on frame.
Stil Mid Century Modern
Datum 1956/1960
Werkstoff Oil on canvas.
Herkunft France
Größe (cm) H. 134 cm x L. 84 cm. 

Größe (Zoll) H. 52.7 inch x L. 33 inch.
Zustand Very good condition.
Versand Europa 190
Versand weltweit 285

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Gemälde Claude Bessy Ballerina Etoile 1960