ID 820196
Lot 651 | LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
Costume design for 'Le Dieu Bleu': Bayadère
signed and dated 'BAKST/1911' (lower left) and inscribed with production title and character (upper left)
pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
12 1/8 x 9 in. (28.3 x 22.8 cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970), New York.
Anonymous sale; Christian de Quay, Paris, 8 June 1994, lot 120.
with The Fine Art Society, London.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1995.
Literature
Programme officiel des Ballets Russes: Septième Saison, Paris, May 1912, illustrated p. [39].
A. Alexandre, L’Art decoratif de Léon Bakst, The Fine Art Society, London, 1913, reproduced as a lithograph in the folio, pl. 11.
C. Beaumont, Five Centuries of Ballet Design, London, 1939, illustrated p. 118.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst, London, 1973, illustrated p. 99, listed p. 230, no. 73 (erroneously dated to 1912).
A. Alexandre, The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst, New York, 1971, illustrated pl. 11, listed p. [vi].
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: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, 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: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Gold |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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