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Please note that on Wednesday 26 February Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 3.30pm for a private event. Last entry to the house will be at 2.15pm. Thank you.

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

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Drawing

Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Scene Two), 1925

Christopher Wood
Gouache on paper
290 x 410 mm
[CW 14]
Not on display

About the artist

Born 1901 – Died 1930

Christopher ‘Kit’ Wood was born in Knowsley, near Liverpool. Following an injury while playing football, Wood contracted a blood disease and was nursed at home by his mother, who encouraged him to take up watercolour painting. Although he had no formal training, he went to Paris in 1921 with the ambition of becoming ‘the greatest painter that ever lived.’ Soon establishing himself as a prominent and popular figure among the artistic and social circles of the 1920s Parisian avant-garde, he mingled with aristocrats and won the admiration of Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. During these years, he also travelled to Europe and North Africa with José Antonio de Gandarillas, a diplomat at the Chilean embassy in Paris.

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Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet, 1925

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Drawing

Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet, 1925

Christopher Wood

Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet Find out more

Drawing

Stage design for Diaghilev’s ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Scene Two), 1925

Christopher Wood

Stage design for Diaghilev’s ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Scene Two) Find out more