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Box BMA.RN.002

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Box 2: Oversized material

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002
Identifier: BMA.RN.002
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: 1961 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1968

Large photograph of Erik Bruhn and Nadia Nerina, circa 1962

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 1
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.001
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: circa 1962

Swan Lake performance photographs, circa 1965

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 2
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.002
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: circa 1965

Roy Round landscape photographs and letter, 1967

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 3
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.003
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: 1967

Posthumous newspaper articles, 2003

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 4
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.004
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: 2003

Sketches by unknown artists, circa 1965

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 5
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.005
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: circa 1965

Photograph tracings by Marlene Dietrich, circa 1964

 File — Box: BMA.RN.002, Folder: 6
Identifier: BMA.RN.002.006
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Rudolph Nureyev was a preeminent ballet dancer and choreographer, often described as "ballet's first pop icon." He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, becoming a media sensation in the West. Nureyev developed friendships with many celebrities and artists throughout the 1960s and 70s, including Jamie Wyeth, for whom he was a regular portrait subject even after Nureyev's death in 1993. In 2001, Sotheby's auctioned off a collection of Nureyev's personal effects formerly owned by his...
Dates: circa 1964