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Galerie de la Béraudière

Max Ernst (Brühl 1891-1976 Paris)
Horizon, 1926
Projet du décor du Ballet Diaghilev, « Roméo et Juliette », Opéra de Monte Carlo, 4 mai 1926
Oil on panel
24.2 x 18.5 cm
Signed lower left : max ernst, inscribed on the back : Col. Serge Lifar, Romeo de Ernst
Provenance: Collection Serge Lifar, Paris (since its creation); Succession Lillan Ahlefeldt (S. Lifar
girlfriend for more than 30 years); Hotel des ventes, Genève, 13 Mars 2012, lot 561; Private collection, 2012
Literature: Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst. Œuvre-Katalog, 1925-1929, Houston,
Menil Foundation / Cologne, DuMont, 1976 p. 105, n° 995 (ill.); Manfred Kelkel, La musique de ballet en France de la belle Epoque. Ouvrage préparé avec le concours du Ministère de la Culture (Direction de la Musique et de la danse) et publié avec le concours du centre National des lettres, Paris, J. Vrin, 1992, pp. 149-150
Exhibition: 1929 Collection Lifar, n° 27

The ballet was set to music by English composer Constant Lambert, choreographed by Nijinsky, and created by the Ballets Russes directed by Serge Diaghilev with George Balanchine in 1926, in Monte Carlo. Diaghilev persuaded the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina to embody the role of Juliet and chooses Serge Lifar as Romeo. Max Ernst was involved in the design of all the decorations while Mirò takes care of the costumes.