Dame Margot Fonteyn

Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-91) was a British Ballerina. Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, she attended the Vic-Wells Ballet School, and by the time she was twenty had danced the lead in three great classics: Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She later joined Lilian Baylis's Sadler's Wells Company where she became emotionally involved with the composer Constant Lambert, brother of the sculptor of this portrait, who wrote Horoscope (1938) for her. She danced the lead in his Tiresias (1951). Fonteyn returned to the state from semi-retirement to dance with Rudolf Nureyev at his debut with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, in 1962, and together formed one of the greatest ballet partnerships of the twentieth century. Bronze, 1956

玛戈·芳婷女爵（Dame Margot Fonteyn，1919-1991）是英国芭蕾舞者。她原名玛格丽特·胡克汉姆（Margaret Hookham），出生于赖盖特（Reigate），曾就读于维克-威尔斯芭蕾舞学校（Vic-Wells Ballet School）；年仅20岁时，她便已主演《吉赛尔》（Giselle）、《天鹅湖》（Swan Lake）与《睡美人》（The Sleeping Beauty）三部经典芭蕾剧目。此后她加入莉莲·贝伊斯（Lilian Baylis）创立的萨德勒之威尔斯芭蕾舞团（Sadler's Wells Company），在此与该肖像雕塑家的兄长、作曲家康斯坦特·兰伯特（Constant Lambert）产生情感联结，兰伯特曾为她创作1938年的芭蕾作品《星座》（Horoscope），芳婷还在其1951年的作品《梯尔西亚斯》（Tiresias）中担任主演。1962年，芳婷结束半退休状态重返舞台，与鲁道夫·纽瑞耶夫（Rudolf Nureyev）在皇家芭蕾舞团科文特花园分院（Royal Ballet, Covent Garden）的首演中合作，二人共同缔造了20世纪最具影响力的芭蕾搭档组合之一。本作品为青铜雕塑，创作于1956年。