Original pencil drawing, by Jacqueline Read Szymczyk, 1976. From the 1912 photo, of the final scene of the ballet: the faune prostrates himself on the earth.
There are some notes from a poem about a dream I had about NIjinsky written on the paper too.
The drawing was created as working document for a painting ( the painting is in the Landscape, Nature and People Collection)
29x 20cm pencil on paper 1976
Notes: art, poetry, music interwove with ballet through Nijinsky's life. Part of the artistic avant-garde, he wrote and choregraphed the ballet, L'Apres-midi d'un Faune;' Claude Debussy wrote the music; the whole was inspired by a poem by the symbolist poet Stephen Malarme; the scenery painted by Leon Bakst. Nijinski was honoured by Chaplin, Astaire, Picasso, among others- Nijinski telling Chaplin that he considered him the greater mover.