A dancer in a jewelled crown and red-feathered gold gown performs

A dancer in a beaded crown crested with feathers and a sleeveless gold gown trimmed with sweeping red ostrich plumes leans back with one arm raised and the other extended to the side, dancing opposite a bare-chested partner who wears a tall conical hat. Two onlookers, partly hidden by stylised red-orange palm trees, watch from either side against a black ground ruled with horizontal white lines. Gold chains and a beaded pendant hang from the dancer's bodice. The title names the dancer as Mlle Sorel at the Grand Prix ball.

George Barbier (1882–1932) was the leading illustrator of French Art Deco fashion. From 1912 his pochoir plates for the Gazette du Bon Ton, Falbalas et Fanfreluches and the couture houses of Paquin, Worth and Poiret drew on Persian miniatures, Greek vases and the Ballets Russes, setting slender figures against flat, saturated colour. He also designed for the stage and illustrated Verlaine and Louÿs. His plates are held by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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