Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky

Prints and Drawings

1913

Jean Cocteau
French, 1889-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Cocteau
Title: Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky
Origin: France
Date: 1913–1963
Medium: Pen and brown ink, on golden-yellow wove tracing paper (discolored from cream)
Dimensions: 300 × 205 mm
Credit Line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
Reference Number: 1947.872
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Chicago,The Arts Club, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago,” November 4-25, 1938, cat. 16.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Modern Drawings,” 1944, p. 89.
New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, “Cocteau Generations: Spirit of the French Avant-Garde,” May 16-June 23, 1984; traveled to Paris, The Pavillon des Arts, March 8-May 6, 1984; Miami, The Dade County Center for the Fine Arts, July 14-September 7, 1984; and Austin, Tex., the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas, October 7-November 25, 1984.

Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.

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