Benois, Alexander - Book "The Birth of the World of Art" Programs Music Signed Strings and Anton Seidl conducting

and Anton Seidl conducting

a ballet with music by Prokofiev and choreography by Kenneth McMillan

Beautiful black and white photograph signed and inscribed by him

20th - 21st December 1928

original by Mishkin

Benois, Alexander - Book "The Birth of the World of Art" Programs Music Signed Strings and Anton Seidl conductingRussian artist (1870 1960), art critic and historian, founder of the art movement known as "World of Art" ("Mir Iskusstva"), in Russian, published in Leningrad, 1928. Benois explains in this book how the movement appeared, the before, during and after. Soft covers, 57 printed pages, 5. 8 x 7. 75 inches, in very good condition.