Odalisque, Princesse de Carisme

Nikolai Milliotti was a founding member of the Blue Rose movement, a group of second-generation Russian Symbolist artists active in Moscow between 1904 and 1908. The term derives from the title of an exhibition that they organised in 1907. Blue Rose artists believed that it was the function of art to transcend reality and communicate with the beyond. To this end the group adopted a common symbolism and a common stylistic approach. Milliotti first came to public notice in 1906, when Diaghilev selected nine works by the artist for his Russian Art Exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. The above costume design is a design for "Princesse de Carisme".