• gouache on board, 1945
• signed lower right recto
• image size 13¼" x 10⅛" (33.6 x 25.7 cm.)
• board size 19" x 15⅛" (48.3 x 38.4 cm.)
• Exhibited:
     Dance, Theatre, Opera: Costume and Decor Designs, Sculpture Photographs and Books, Sotheby's, Dec 15, 1977, no. 4063
     All in this Together: Dorothea Tanning & Friends, Kent Gallery, New York, Sep 10 - Nov 28, 2009
     Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage, The Drawing Center, New York, Apr 23 - Jul 23, 2010, no. 11
• Literature:
     Night Shadow, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, souvenir program for the 1945-1946 season, 1945, General Program Corporation, NY
     John Martin, The Dance Events of the Week, The New York Times, Feb 25, 1946
     Night Shadow, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, souvenir program for the 1946-1947 season, 1946, General Program Corporation, NY
     Night Shadow, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, souvenir program for the 1947-1948 season, 1947, General Program Corporation, NY
     Bernard Taper, Balanchine, Harper and Row, NY, 1960 and 1963, pp. 322-323
     Dorothea Tanning, Note Bibliographique, Dorothea Tanning, 1966, Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur, Paris, p. 152
     Jacques Baron, Anthologie Plastique du Surrealisme, 1980, Editions Filipacchi, Paris, p. 251
     Sarah Wilson, Between Lives, Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives -- Works on Paper, 1989, Runkel-Hue-Williams Ltd., London, pp. 8-9
     Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, 2001, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, pp. 86-87
     Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage, 2010, The Drawing Center, NY, p.22

The original painting for the cover of the Ballet Russe's 1945-1946 souvenir program.