Christian Comte animated stills of Nijinsky taken by Baron Adolph de Meyer. These beguiling short films give a glimpse his genius or are an insult to his memory and his insistence never to be captured on film - depending how you look at it. See more here.

Adolph de Meyer himself was a favorite of Diana Vreeland and Cecil Beaton and features heavily in the former’s wonderful book Allure, the first edition of which I was lucky enough to receive as a Christmas gift from Mr G.

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