Signed and Inscribed Ballet Photograph Svetlana Beriosova. Excellent Condition Framable.

Hand signed and inscribed in blue pen: " With Best Wishes, Svetlana Beriosova", Very rare photograph from her days as prima ballerina in the Royal Ballet in the 1950s.

14 cm x 8.5 cm. 

Svetlana Nikolayevna Beriosova (:  ; 24 September 1932 10 November 1998), also spelled Beriozova or Beryozova, was a Lithuanian-British  prima ballerina who danced with The  Royal Ballet for more than 20 years.

Beriosova died from cancer, aged 66, in  London in 1998. She was survived by her stepmother, Doris Beriozoff. In the Financial Times, the eminent ballet critic  wrote that Beriosova was "a ballerina of serene physical beauty and of no less lovely temperament", with "pearl-like radiance", and that to all of her performances she "brought a generous and illuminating sensibility" and was "in everything a ballerina whose understanding of her art and command of its nuances went to the very core of any role she assumed", concluding her to have been "blessed with an extraordinary ability to tell the great truths about theatrical dancing with a heart-stopping sensitivity and dignity".