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Various Ballets
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Various Ballets
Approximately sixty photographs of Margot Fonteyn in various roles, majority black and white, a number with photographer's ink credit on reverse, including: Comus, Coppélia, Le Corsaire, Dante Sonata, Daphnis & Chloë and Don Juan, circa 1940s-1960s, by various photographers, including eight by Gordon Anthony of Fonteyn in Comus and Coppelia, 1940s, six shots by Baron of Fonteyn in Daphnis Et Chloë, and two by Angus McBean of Fonteyn in Don Juan, each with photographer's ink credit on reverse; majority press stills, including a number of duplicate images, majority -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.); and a photograph of Fonteyn and Christopher Gable performing Daphnis and Chloë, circa 1964 -- 18¾x13¼in. (47.5x33.5cm.) framed (a lot)
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Lot Essay
See two illustrations for 'Dante Sonata' on p.92 and one for 'Daphnis and Chloë' on p.118