Serge Lifar was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Not only a dancer, Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector

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Milano. IL GIORNO newspaper, December 10, 1962. Ballet Icarus, which Lifar and Picasso revived in 1962.

Serge Lifar writing in Russian on the top of newspaper, to Gontar (director of Kiev Opera Theater)  

"To Viktor Petrovich Gontar - just my cordial greetings and best wishes for the New Year!

Serge Lifar" (hand diagram)

"P.s Icarus with Picasso, my dream in September, to present this to you, in my native Kiev . In our Kiev Opera Theater!"

Provenance: From the collection of Y.Yurovsky