
Print
1918Illustration by Adrian Allinson
Setting of pyramid in yellow, greens and ochre, dark blue and green background and huge orange moon in front of which are Egyptian columns in pink and purple. Cleopatra is reclining right of centre with attendants behind; beside her a male and female figure kneel in supplication to the High Priest at extreme right. Print coloured by hand.
Illustration by Adrian Allinson of a scene from Mikhail Fokine's 1909 ballet Cleopatre, in redesigned setting by Robert Delaunay, 1918, Diaghilev Ballets Russes.




