Guide to the Portraits of Australian ballet dancers

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PIC/3721

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2025

Collection Summary

Title
Portraits of Australian ballet dancers
Date Range
[1930-1949]
Collection Number
PIC/3721
Extent
6 items photographs : gelatin silver ; 21 x 15.9 cm. and smaller.
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Pictures)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Comprises portraits of Rovi Pavinoff, Elaine Fifield, Peggy Van Praagh and Robert Helpmann taken by Alexander Bender, Gordon Anthony, Hugh Francis and others.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3044597).

Conditions Governing Use

Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3044597).

Item Descriptions

[Portrait of Rovi Pavinoff], February 1944 (Item PIC/3721/1) - Piece PIC Box PS 11897 #PIC/3721/1

Creator: Bender, Alexander.

Noted on verso: Rovi Pavinoff in "Frost" the new revue at the Coliseum (pantomime).

[Portrait of Elaine Fifield], [n.d.] (Item PIC/3721/2) - Piece PIC Box PS 11898 #PIC/3721/2

Creator: Anthony, Gordon, 1902-1989.

Autograph on image.

[Portrait of Peggy Van Praagh in Coppelia (Act I)], [n.d.] (Item PIC/3721/3) - Piece PIC Box PS 11899 #PIC/3721/3

Creator: Tunbridge Sedgwick.

[Portrait of Peggy Van Praagh as Swanhilda in Coppelia (Act II)], [n.d.] (Item PIC/3721/4) - Piece PIC Box PS 11900 #PIC/3721/4

Creator: Anthony, Gordon, 1902-1989.

[Portrait of Peggy Van Praagh], February 1939 (Item PIC/3721/5) - Piece PIC Box PS 11901 #PIC/3721/5

Creator: Francis, Hugh.

Inscribed: For Don, Best wishes, Peggy van Praagh Feb 1939.

Related Materials

See this record for additional related material.

[Robert Helpmann as Hamlet], 1942 (Item PIC/3721/6) - Piece PIC Box PS 11902 #PIC/3721/6

Autograph on image.

[Dancers and Robert Helpmann in his own ballet Miracle in the Gorbals], 1944 (Item PIC/3721/7) - Piece PIC Box PS 11903 #PIC/3721/7

Creator: Graphic Photo Union, London.


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