Nijinsky: A Dance With Madness

Nijinsky: A Dance With Madness. "...As symptoms of a psychological disturbance became increasingly evident, Nijinsky moved with his family to Switzerland. He kept a diary obsessively, and at one point covered his bedroom walls with drawings including the haunting image of a single staring eye. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1919, and spent the rest of his life in and out of hospitalization. This body of artwork was created during the early years of that tumultuous period.
The body of Nijinsky's artwork includes twenty-one gouache on paper abstractions, as well as a series of compulsive pencil and crayon drawings, approximately thirty in number. Vaslav Nijinsky's artwork has been exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in paris, and was recently featured in the 'Inner Worlds Outside' exhibition at Whitechapel in London."