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Léon Bakst (1866-1924)

Lot 121
05.04.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 930324
Lot 121 | Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Estimate value
€ 15 000 – 20 000
Léon Bakst (1866-1924)

Suite du Schah, Projet de costume pour le ballet "Schéhérazade" de Diaghilev

inscrit '"Suite du Schah" Fig- No 6' (en haut à droite)

aquarelle et graphite rehaussé peinture dorée sur papier

33.4 x 23.1 cm.

Exécuté vers 1910



inscribed '"Suite du Schah [sic]" Fig- No 6' (upper right)

watercolour and pencil heightened with gold paint on paper

13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.

Executed circa 1910





Provenance

Collection particulière, Italie.



Literature

M. Cissan, 'Les Etoiles des Ballets Russes', in Comœdia illustré, Paris, no. 18, 15 juin 1910, p. 17 (illustré en couleurs).

C. Spencer, Léon Bakst, Londres, 1973, p. 228, no. 52 (illustré, p. 75)



Post lot text

L’adaptation originale en ballet de la suite symphonique Shéhérazade de Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) a été présentée pour la première fois lors des Saisons Russes de Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) le 4 juin 1910 à l’Opéra Garnier à Paris. Bakst a travaillé sur le livret pour le ballet avec le chorégraphe Michel Fokine (1880-1942), ainsi que sur la conception générale.

The original ballet adaptation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s (1844-1908) symphonic suite Scheherazade premiered during Sergei Diaghilev’s (1872-1929) Saisons Russes on the 4 June 1910 at the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Bakst worked on the libretto for the ballet with the choreographer Michel Fokine (1880-1942), and the overall design.
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