RUDOLF NUREYEV (1938-1993), NOELLA PONTOIS (B. 1943) World ballet artists – Rudolf Nureyev and Noella Pontois: photograph. [Paris] photographer Serge Lido, [1971]

19.8 x 17.5 cm On the reverse: photographer's stamp 'Photos Serge Lido. 4, Rue Choronvise, 75016 Paris'; ownership annotations. Serge Lido (Sergey Pavlovich Lidov; 1906-1984) – a legendary ballet photographer, over his half-century career he created the most comprehensive archive of photographs of stars of world ballet, including Roland Petit, Nina Vyroubova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Serge Lifar, Milorad Miskovic, Alicia Markova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice Béjart, Martha Graham, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others, as well as a portrait gallery of the world's artistic and intellectual elite, including photographs of Jean Cocteau, Edith Piaf, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Maria Callas, Brigitte Bardot, Pierre Cardin, and others.