LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Lot 639
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ID 820219
Lot 639 | LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
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$ 25 000 – 35 000
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'Sadko': Man with embroidered shirt and red boots

signed 'bakst' (lower left)

pencil and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper

19 x 12 7/8 in. (48.3 x 32.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1917





Provenance

Georges Rasamatt (1899-1991), Paris.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 294.

Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.



Literature

L. Reau et al., Inedited works of Bakst, New York, 1927, illustrated plate XXV as 'A costume for the opera Sadko'.

C. Einstein, Léon Bakst, Berlin, 1928, illustrated plate 24 as 'Ein Kostümentwurf für die Oper Sadko'.

E. Bespalova, Bakst v Parizhe [Bakst in Paris], Moscow, 2016, illustrated p. 144, listed p. 250, no. 139.
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