https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird
There is a performance conducted by GERGIEV on YouTube
The sound is remarkably clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkIAVGlfWk
A performance of the ballet, itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0MpwTEkzqQ
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This last one has a dealer's description ...
Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) [Signed as Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi]
Title: A Portrait of Beauty
Publisher: Izutsuya Shokichi Date: 1815-1842
A portrait of a beauty completed entirely in Prussian blue. Entering Japan from the West, the then expensive and exotic pigment sparked a wealth of inspiration for artists during the Edo period (c. 1603-1868). The demand for this colour is clear from the fact entire works were composed in it almost monochromatically, with perhaps the most famous example being Katsuchika Hokusai's (1760-1849) The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1829–1832).
Kuniyoshi presents a lady with her back turned to the viewer, revealing the sash of her kimono decorated with flying kites. The motif of her dress has associations with the Japanese festival of Children's Day traditionally celebrated in Spring. Sparsely placed, the upper half of her robe is adorned with two paulownia flowers
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592554001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592558001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-22001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-22007
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-22010
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-22005
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592550001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592548001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592557001
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592560001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
“I believe it is not difficult to convince anyone of the expressive power of color. Without a doubt, each color has its greatest virtue of expression or emotive power when it contrasts or harmonizes with another. Nevertheless, between white which reflects the sun’s rays and black which absorbs them, each color has its own accent and emits tranquility the closer it is to white, and melancholy the closer it comes to black.
Yellow is the color closest to the sun’s rays...it is the color of spectacles, of the most precious metals…
Red is situated between the joy of bright colors and the tranquility of somber ones; it expresses dignity, pomp and circumstance. It is potent and terrible in judicial robes; prideful in military uniforms…
Blue is the color that rises and falls most in the tonal spectrum; it runs from barely perceptible white to a profoundness that nearly reaches darkest black; it is the color of poets, immaterial, celestial. When it is bright it speaks of purity, ethereality; when dark, it contains the imminent melancholy of evening.”
Angel Zárraga, 1906
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/la-femme-et-le-pantin-%C3%81ngel-zarraga/XAG22C15kXgJ5A
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https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-naked-dancer-%C3%81ngel-zarraga/egFZSkQ9REsa8g
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Z%C3%A1rraga
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... to be continued, possibly, maybe ... but later ... until just this minute, i hadn't connected the pre-war "cowboy" painter with the brilliant post-war "romance" man ...
https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-g-harris
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... to be continued maybe ...
the whole thing can be read and admired in exquisite detail here ...
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft1zd1jg5k&seq=12&view=2up
... etc, etc ...
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