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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Lot 644
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Lot 644 | LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for Tamara Karsavina as 'L'Oiseau de Feu'

signed, inscribed with production title and dated 'BAKST/1910' (lower left)

pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper

13 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (35 x 22 cm.)





Provenance

A. M. Otthoffer, Paris, by 1939.

with Galleria del Levante, Milan.

Collection of Mrs. Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1901-1982), New York.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 March 1980, lot 31.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 December 1996, lot 159.

Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.



Literature

J. Péladan, 'Les arts du théatre. Un maître du costume et du décor: Léon Bakst', L’art decoratif, June 1911, no. 153, pp. 285-300, illustrated on separate plate.

A. Levinson, Bakst: The Story of the Artist's Life, London, 1923, illustrated pl. L, listed p. 240.

Exhibition catalogue, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew 1909 à 1929, Paris, 1939, illustrated on the cover, listed p. 13, no. 8.

C. Beaumont, Five Centuries of Ballet Design, London, 1939, illustrated p. [111].

F. Gadan and R. Maillard (eds.), A Dictionary of Modern Ballet, London, 1959, illustrated p. 151.

G. Oswald et. al., Stravinsky and the Dance. A Survey of Ballet Productions 1910-1962, New York, 1962, illustrated p. 15, no. 4.

I. Pruzhan, Lev Samoilovich Bakst, Leningrad, 1975, illustrated p. 149, listed p. 231.

Exhibition catalogue, Igor Stravinsky: La carrière européenne, Paris, 1980, listed p. 24, no. 52.

A. Schouvaloff and V. Borovsky, Stravinsky on Stage, London, 1982, illustrated p. 41.

I. Pruzhan (ed.), Léon Bakst: esquisses de décors et de costumes, art graphiques, peintures, Leningrad, 1986, illustrated p. [62], listed p. 232, no. 30.

A. Schouvaloff, Léon Bakst: The Theatre Art, London, 1991, illustrated and listed p. 64.

E. Bespalova, Bakst v Parizhe [Bakst in Paris], Moscow, 2016, illustrated p. 24, listed p. 244, no. 16.



Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew 1909 à 1929, April-May 1939, no. 8.

Paris, Musée d’art modern de la ville de Paris, Igor Stravinsky: La carrière européenne, 14 October-30 November 1980, no. 59.
Artist:Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924)
Applied technique:Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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