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Alicia Markova "The Dying Swan" is a 1949 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. (It is also known simply as The Dying Swan, but is not to be confused with another Tretchikoff painting with the same title.) The painting depicts the prima ballerina Alicia Markova in her most famous role, The Dying Swan, from which she became inseparable in the minds of the public; it is for this reason that the artist painted the swan and Markova as one and the same being.
The Dying Swan Alicia Markova Vladimir Tretchikoff