Porcelain Russian ballet Fokine as Prince Fire-bird LFZ

You are bidding on rare Russian(Soviet) porcelain figurine - depicting the great  Russian groundbreaking  choreographer and dancer Michel Fokine (a French transliteration, English transliteration - Mikhail Fokin) in the costume of Prince from ballet "Firebird", Paris 1910.

A costume under L.S.Bakst's sketches.

The author of model (1923) is sculptor Ivanov Dmitry Iosifovich

Hard paste porcelain, overglaze decoration
Technique : Gold painting
Brand : Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ)

This delightfully decorative porcelain figurine was produced in USSR in the middle of last century

Excellent collectable item. Very fine quality porcelain. Hand painted. Excellent condition, any cracks or restoration.

There are near 10 inches tall

Michel Fokine (April 23 [O.S. April 11] 1880 – August 22, 1942) was born in Saint Petersburg, as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant and at the age of 9, he was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Imperial Ballet School (Vaganova Ballet Academy). In 1898, on his 18th birthday, he debuted on the stage of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Paquita, with the Imperial Russian Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet). In 1902, he became a teacher of the ballet school; among his students was the dancer and artists' model Desha Delteil.

Fokine aspired to move beyond stereotypical ballet traditions. Virtuoso ballet techniques to him were not an end in themselves, but a means of expression. He presented his reformist ideas to the management of the Imperial theatre, but did not win their support. Some of his early works include the ballet Acis and Galatea (1905) and The Dying Swan (1907), which was a solo dance for Anna Pavlova, choreographed to the music of Le Cygne. In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev invited Fokine to become the choreographer of his Ballets Russes in Paris. However, Fokine broke off the collaboration in 1912, jealous of Diaghilev's close association with Vaslav Nijinsky. He moved to Sweden with his family in 1918 and later established his home in New York City, where he founded a ballet school and continued to appear with his wife, Vera Fokina. He became a United States citizen in 1932.

Fokine staged more than 70 ballets in Europe and the United States. His best known works were Chopiniana (later revised as Les Sylphides), Le Carnaval and Le Pavillon d'Armide. Among his works for the Ballets Russes were The Firebird, Petrushka, Le Spectre de la Rose and Daphnis et Chloe'. Also, for the Ballets Russes, he created a ballet out of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

Nice rare item for collector. Really remarkable present or a beautiful decor for your home

All pictures are actual, you will receive what you see

There is porcelain factory logo at the bottom (blue mark in Russian "LFZ")

If you need in additional or enlarged photos let me know pls.

A pretty & useful addition to your collection. Nice item and present for porcelain-lovers and collectors

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