ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Lot 641
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Lot 641 | ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
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ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

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.
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