LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

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Lot 656 | LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

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.
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