ID 820111
Lot 641 | ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
Costume design for an Oriental dancer
with signature and date 'Bakst/1910' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (34.5 x 25 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 October 1990, lot 375 as 'Costume design for Cleopatra - a Dancer'.
Charles Spencer Esq. (1920-2010), London.
with The Fine Art Society, London, November 1995.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.
Literature
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes, London, 1995, illustrated p. 71, listed p. 220, no. 109.
C. Spencer, Bakst in Greece, Athens, 2009, illustrated p. 119 (erroneously listed as from the Lobanov-Rostovsky Collection).
Exhibited
Possibly, London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst and the Ballets Russes, 13 November-15 December 1995.
| Artist: | Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Gold |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Gold |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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