Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La Belle au Bois Dormant': Un courtisan
signed 'Bakst' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with gold, on paper
11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23 cm.)
Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La Belle au Bois Dormant': Un courtisan
signed 'Bakst' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with gold, on paper
11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23 cm.)
Acquired by the mother of the present owner from Galleria del Levante, Milan, in the late 1970s.
A. Levinson, L’œuvre deLéon Bakst pour la belle au bois dormant, Paris, 1922, listed no. 53, illustrated pl. LIII. Exhibition catalogue, Léon Bakst, Milan, 1967, listed p. [17], no. 52. Exhibition catalogue, G. Veronesi, Decimo festival dei due mondi. Leon Bakst, Spoleto, 1967, listed p. [17], no. 52. Exhibition catalogue, Ballet in beeld bij Bakst, The Hague, 1968, listed no. 42. Exhibition catalogue, Les Ballet Russes de Serge de Diaghilev 1909-1929, Strasbourg, 1969, listed p. 182, no. 330. Exhibition catalogue, Bakst, London, 1973, listed p. [25], no. 94.
Milan, Rome and Munich, Galleria del Levante, Léon Bakst, May-November 1967, no. 52 (inscription on the backboard). Spoleto, Palazzo Ancaiani, Decimo festival dei due mondi. Leon Bakst, 3-20 July 1967, no. 52 (inscription on the backboard). The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Ballet in beeld bij Bakst, 17 January-3 March 1968, no. 42. Strasbourg, L’ancienne douane, Les Ballet Russes de Serge de Diaghilev 1909-1929,15 May-15 September 1969, no. 330 (label on the backboard). London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, 3 December 1973-4 January 1974, no. 94. Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Diaghilev Ballet Costumes, 10 June-18 August 1974, no. 46 (label on the backboard).
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