GASTON LONGCHAMP (1894-1986) Serge Diaghilev à la 1ere représentation de Petrushka • Oil on canvas • Signed 'g Longchamp' (on the reverse); inscribed and with a portrait of Picasso (on the reverse) • Unframed • 48 1/16' x 31 7/8' sight size Footnotes: N.B. The full inscription on the reverse reads: 'SERGE DIAGHILEV/JUNE 1911/à la 1ère représentation/au CHATELET/de/'PETRUSHKA'/MUSIQUE DE STRAVINSKY/DECORS DE ALEX. BENOIT/CHOREGRAPHIE DE FOKINE/KARSAVINA NIJINSKY} DANCEURS/PIERRE MONTEUX, CONDUCTEUR' and 'avec un PORTRAIT de PICASSO/ G Longchamp.' Gaston Longchamp was a set designer in the Parisian avant-garde ballet world, assisting Picasso with stage designs for the Ballet Russe and Chagall with scenery for Stravinsky's Firebird. He went on to work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and designed sets for the American Ballet's Transcendence with choreography by George Balanchine which premiered in 1935 at the Adelphi Theatre. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing