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Ballets russs sergei diaghilev biography
Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929)
Impresario of the Ballets Russes
Biography
An important influence on early modern art, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev was a Russian impresario who achieved widespread fame in Europe as the founder of the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet).
Visionary, inspirational, but a harsh taskmaster, he had an unusual talent for attracting the greatest modern artists of the Ecole de Paris into his circle. Painters who worked on designs for Diaghilev's ballet company included the famous Cubists Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963), the metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), the Surrealists Joan Miro (1893-1983) and Max Ernst (1891-1976), the Parisian genre-painter Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), and the Fauvists Andre Derain (1880-1954) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954).
In addition to these artists, Diaghilev was especially close to two Russian artists upon whom he relied heavily, when he first launched his ballet company: