Untitled
1950
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1950
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a 1950 by Unknown, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a person walking away from us, their back turned. Their hair is pulled up, and they wear a loose dress that flows behind them. The lines are light and quick, like a quick sketch rather than a finished drawing. The drawing feels unfinished, with loose strokes that don’t quite fill in all the details. The paper is plain, and the whole thing looks like a practice piece or a fast study. If you like sketches like this, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more drawings like it.
The lithograph depicts a full-length female figure posed en pointe, leaning leftward from the waist with the right arm curved over the head, dressed in a classical tutu. It portrays Margot Fonteyn as Princess Aurora in Marius Petipa’s *The Sleeping Beauty*, produced by the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1946 with designs by Oliver Messel, based on a photograph from the Vision scene. The print entered the museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest. The ballet’s 1946 revival marked the reopening of the Royal Opera House, solidifying its significance in the Royal Ballet’s history and Fonteyn’s…
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