Picasso and Matisse are the big draw in Cork as set and costume designs for Ballets Russes go on display

An exhibition of set and costume designs by great artists for the Ballets Russes are currently on display at the UCC gallery, writes Colette Sheridan

IN SOMETHING of a coup for UCC’s Glucksman Gallery, works on paper by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse are among 33 drawings in an exhibition, Set in Time, which portray set and costume designs by some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century.

This curated selection of the Serge Lifar collection is being shown in Ireland for the first time. Some of the drawings, on loan from the Wadsworth Museum in Connecticut, USAhave not been shown in Europe since they were created at the start of the last century.