tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post651153619271058080..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Anna Pavlova's London home and gardenHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-46371796463331589312020-08-08T19:11:00.199+10:002020-08-08T19:11:00.199+10:00Helen
great pages, many thanks.
If the url did no...Helen<br /><br />great pages, many thanks.<br />If the url did not come out correctly, readers can drop me a note.<br /><br />Be healthy and well in coronavirus conditions<br />HelenHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-8518208541665615002020-08-08T18:56:14.592+10:002020-08-08T18:56:14.592+10:00Hello!
Here is the page from the Illustrated Lond...Hello!<br /><br />Here is the page from the Illustrated London News with the actual designs, by the actual Carl Milles of the proposed (and never built) Anna Pavlova Memorial Fountain. I was just researching the Regent's Park Rose Garden and this popped up! Too bad it never found funding.... now if George Lansbury had still been there...<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />Helen W<br /><br />C:/Users/helenw-HP/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/0CBFVU3I/Anna%20Pavlova%20Memorial%20Fountain.ILN.1935.12.14.1104.pdfHelen Wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15378342754783093222020-07-31T20:55:49.233+10:002020-07-31T20:55:49.233+10:00Anonymous
Many thanks. I love blogging, a source ...Anonymous<br /><br />Many thanks. I love blogging, a source of information that I wouldn't have found myself.<br /><br />I had no trouble finding newspaper articles about the proposed Pavlova Memorial Fountain, just a couple of years after her death. But I haven't found any Milles sketches or plans, yet! Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-88531883286730659452020-07-31T20:04:04.378+10:002020-07-31T20:04:04.378+10:00There are sketches and plans (by Carl Milles) of t...There are sketches and plans (by Carl Milles) of the proposed Anna Pavlova Memorial Fountain that was meant to be placed in the Rose Garden in Regent's Park in the Illustrated London News, 14 December 1935, p 1104. This can be downloaded from the to the online ILN database if you have access to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-71014299648644349752020-03-31T11:48:36.298+11:002020-03-31T11:48:36.298+11:00John
Good luck completing your search - I hope so...John<br /><br />Good luck completing your search - I hope somewhere out there can help. We all have an issue that resonates for our entire adult careers.<br /><br />I didn't even know about the two women's collaboration until I saw the very long bas relief plaster frieze called Bacchanale. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-36597559009517954122020-03-31T05:42:04.457+11:002020-03-31T05:42:04.457+11:00Does anyone out there have good information regard...Does anyone out there have good information regarding Anna Pavlova's sculptures which she may have created while working with Malvina Hoffman? I have been researching a piece with her script signature. Any help? It has been a 40 yrears search for me.<br />Thank you,<br />john<br />morganhill@snet.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-12808751937818384332019-05-03T11:06:18.238+10:002019-05-03T11:06:18.238+10:00Sharon
absolutely... get your memorabilia examine...Sharon<br /><br />absolutely... get your memorabilia examined professionally. I suggest:<br /><br />The Lilian Scott Wood Collection<br />Royal Ballet School Special Collections<br />Please contact The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge Museum Richmond Surrey via their website: <br /> http://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/the-school/museum/<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-89730129349217444382019-05-03T10:45:35.237+10:002019-05-03T10:45:35.237+10:00I have been sorting out my papers and trying to el...I have been sorting out my papers and trying to eliminate what I don't need. Some of it is very old and I did not really go through it when my mother passed. I have found some photos of Anna Pavlova and some programs that she had kept. However, I found a couple of letters and a program that may or may not be pertinent to Anna Pavlova but I do know for sure they were not my mothers as the letters refer programs in Bombay, India. I think they must have been relevant to Anna Pavlova although I do not see her name in any of them. My mother knew Anna Pavlova personally and I just wonder if these letters and the programme could be of any use to her collection but I do not know who and how to contact the appropriate person perhaps you could let me know.<br /><br />Thanks, <br /><br />-- <br />Sharon <br />(email attached)<br />Sharon J Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-21853924766132329202018-09-20T23:42:07.430+10:002018-09-20T23:42:07.430+10:00Dear David Sumray,
I have an interesting object f...Dear David Sumray,<br /><br />I have an interesting object from Milles, and would really like to contact you to hear more about the intended Memorial statue. If you see this, please contact me on mail@emilclaesson.com<br /><br />Best regards,<br />EmilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-65413044582824693992014-03-04T08:10:35.387+11:002014-03-04T08:10:35.387+11:00If you go to jiscmediahub.ac.uk and search 'Pa...If you go to jiscmediahub.ac.uk and search 'Pavlova' you will find it there - unless you are a part of a subscribing educational organisation, you won't be able to view it, but you can look at the frames. A number of items from the film are on YouTube - varying quality - including La Nuit, Californian Poppy, Fairy Doll etc. Have a look on BBC i-player for a BBC2 programme that went out on 1 March - Darcey's Ballerina Heroines. Bussell is lightweight, and calls Ivy House, Ivy Lodge - a number of silly errors throughout, and the programme is a cross between bits of the history of ballet and 'my favourite ballerinas'. But it has some very good quality footage of some of the dances Pavlova filmed for Lee De Forrest - obviously restored. David Sumraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-13625505227430856762014-03-01T14:53:14.794+11:002014-03-01T14:53:14.794+11:00David
many many thanks. I have seen the 1930 Path...David<br /><br />many many thanks. I have seen the 1930 Pathe film of Pavlova at Ivy House, with her lake and her swans. But I will have to chase up the Immortal Swan film. That might involve a little effort on my part :) Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76737979625115807252014-03-01T01:01:58.309+11:002014-03-01T01:01:58.309+11:00'Immortal Swan' was a film made up of some...'Immortal Swan' was a film made up of some of the footage of Pavlova dancing, her travels and home movies from Ivy House. It opens with a recreation of 'Chopiniana', danced by former members of the Company, and staged by Algeranoff from Clustine's original choreography for Pavlova. There is then footage of Pavlova and the Company on their travels. The footage of Pavlova dancing are films shot in New York c.1923 at the studio of Lee de Forrest (Phonofilms, but no sound, that was added for the 1936 film); at the Pickford/Fairbanks Studio in 1925, filmed on the set of 'Don Q, Son of Zorro'; at the estate of Sir George Tallis, Melbourne, in 1926; on stage at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne in 1929. <br /><br />The film was re-edited by Dandre between its premiere in Paris and its premiere in London, and the Giselle footage shot in 1929 was removed. <br /><br />As it stands - in the British Film Archive (a slightly different version to that held by the New York Public Library, which was put together from the French version), the dances shown are as follows (not necessarily in this order, because I am writing this from memory, as all of my papers/files/notes are in boxes at the moment, with the renovation work): <br /><br />Chopiniana - recreation. <br /><br />Invitation to the Dance<br /><br />(a) - a fragment of the Company dancing, which looks as though it might have been filmed in Australia in 1929; <br /><br />(b) Pavlova's own variation - filmed for Lee de Forrest (complete).<br /><br />Californian Poppy -filmed for Lee de Forrest (complete).<br /><br />La Nuit - filmed for Lee de Forrest (complete).<br /><br />Don Quixote - Pavlova's two act version, staged for her by Laurent Novikoff. Fragment of the Act II Adagio. Filmed in Melbourne, 1929.<br /><br />Dionysus - fragment. Filmed for Fairbanks in 1925. <br /><br />Fairy Doll - Pavlova's entree and her Variation. Filmed for Fairbanks in 1925. <br /><br />A Variation I shall have to come back to you about, because I can't get to my files at the moment. She's wearing her Columbine costume, and it's a Variation from, originally, Les Millions d'Arlequin, but right now I cannot remember in which of her divertissments it was later used - the actual name, I mean. <br /><br />Dragonfly - filmed for Lee de Forrest (complete).<br /><br />Rondino (which was filmed both in slow motion and at regular speed). Fragments. Filmed at Sir George Tallis's estate, Melbourne, in 1926.<br /><br />The Swan - filmed for Fairbanks in 1925. <br /><br />Apart from the home movie footage of travels and at home, there is also the Pathe sound footage from 1929/1930, probably 1930, of Pavlova at Ivy House, by the little lake, talking to and feeding her swans, and and then rising and walking back up the steps. <br /><br />David Sumraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-1090510678078235052014-02-28T12:21:14.902+11:002014-02-28T12:21:14.902+11:00David,
many thanks. I know the British Pathe webs...David,<br /><br />many thanks. I know the British Pathe website well and will have no trouble finding the tribute.<br /><br />ButI what is/was the 1936 film Immortal Swan? I am a ballet fan, but I don't remember that film at all.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-18896035987005183162014-02-28T11:18:31.040+11:002014-02-28T11:18:31.040+11:00I am sorry it has taken me so long to respond - re...I am sorry it has taken me so long to respond - repairs and renovations to house have taken up/are taking up a lot of time. I can't find a photograph for you, but if you go to the British Pathe website and search 'Pavlova Tribute 1952' you will find a newsreel film of Spanish dancers laying a bouquet of flowers at the statue. Good close-ups of the statue. The little cupids and the fountains at the sides are long gone - don't know what happened to them. The Paulin statue wasn't what was originally designed in 1935/1936 to be erected in Regent's Park as the Pavlova Memorial - that was designed by Carl Milles, and was intended to be a large circular fountain with figures in dance poses with a swan in the centre, with foutains of water cascading in curving arcs (hope that description gives you some idea - have a look at photographs of Milles' 'Orpheus Foutain' at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum in Detroit, which has some similarities in the figures and their placing). The fountain was to have been placed in the centre of the Rose Garden in the Inner Circle Garden. The film 'Immortal Swan' (1936), overseen by Victor Dandre, was intended by him to raise enough money to fund the Regent's Park Memorial, but it didn't. Dandre wrote to a friend that if the memorial wasn't built in his lifetime, then it would never be built. Sadly, he was right. David Sumraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75093553216289781272013-11-25T10:09:50.355+11:002013-11-25T10:09:50.355+11:00David
many thanks. I will change the details in t...David<br /><br />many thanks. I will change the details in the post straight away. By the way, do you have a reference to an image of the Paulin sculpture on the lake?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-81974071424629875542013-11-25T07:40:34.871+11:002013-11-25T07:40:34.871+11:00The statue you have shown in the photograph is one...The statue you have shown in the photograph is one by Tom Merrifield - Pavlova as 'The Dragonfly'. The Paulin memorial sculpture of 1954 - now minus its original side pieces - is situated on the old swan lake n the garden. David Sumraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4266062839472736652013-07-10T13:02:28.029+10:002013-07-10T13:02:28.029+10:00Andrew
she always posed! Pavlova was performing, ...Andrew<br /><br />she always posed! Pavlova was performing, even when she was in her pjamas and cooking a toasted sandwich for tea. <br /><br />The reason I chose that photo in particular was because the bay windows were open, airy and allowed her to see out onto the beautiful gardens.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-2286214934635565622013-07-10T12:59:43.397+10:002013-07-10T12:59:43.397+10:00Student of History
We may have been surprised she...Student of History<br /><br />We may have been surprised she settled in London and not Paris, but her home and gardens were so serene, it made sense.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-81080259861749903882013-07-10T12:58:35.618+10:002013-07-10T12:58:35.618+10:00Parnassus
the question the students asked was bas...Parnassus<br /><br />the question the students asked was basically this: "was Pavlova happy, far away from home and family, running a touring company instead of just dancing?" And I think the answer was yes. <br /><br />She was a great dancer, but she was also a very fine organiser, and was warmly welcomed in just about every country of the world. Much more so than Diaghilev!Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-88801236131988573572013-07-10T12:09:23.029+10:002013-07-10T12:09:23.029+10:00Wonderful house, taking up quite some land. While ...Wonderful house, taking up quite some land. While it is terribly posed, it is a good photo of her. Such a relief that there was not a direct mention of a dessert.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49476129042291005952013-07-10T09:38:44.810+10:002013-07-10T09:38:44.810+10:00After the lecture, I left a note on your last Pavl...After the lecture, I left a note on your last Pavlova article. Loved the topic. Loved her home and garden.Student of Historynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-33440460135328797462013-07-09T22:51:25.421+10:002013-07-09T22:51:25.421+10:00Hello Hels, It is impressive how many female arti...Hello Hels, It is impressive how many female artists, such as Pavlova, in history showed executive ability and formed their own touring companies. I am more interested in music than dance, and off the top of my head I can think of Emma Abbott, Emma Juch and also composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond who created a music publishing company.Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.com