ID 820166
Lot 656 | LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Estimate value
$ 18 000 – 22 000
Costume design for 'La Belle au bois dormant': Dame d’honneur avec le page portant le train
signed 'Bakst' (lower right) and inscribed with production notes overall
pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (29.2 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by The Fine Art Society, London in 1986.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, The Diaghilev Ballet in England, London, 1979, illustrated on the cover, listed p. 40, no. 106.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes, London, 1995, illustrated p. 205, listed p. 223, no. 313.
Exhibited
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and London, The Fine Art Society, The Diaghilev Ballet in England, 11 October 1979-11 January 1980, no. 106.
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: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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