Lot 10 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MILAN

Léon Bakst (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'La Belle au Bois Dormant': Mazurka dancer in gold

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Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La Belle au Bois Dormant': Mazurka dancer in gold
signed and dated 'Bakst/1921' (lower right); with inscription '"Sleeping Princess"/5 acte/Mazurka/6 Danseuses' (upper right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, gold and silver, on paper
13 1/8 x 10¼ in. (33.2 x 26 cm.)

Acquired by the mother of the present owner from Galleria del Levante, Milan, in the late 1970s.

Exhibition catalogue, Léon Bakst, Milan, 1967, listed p. [17], no. 56.
Exhibition catalogue, G. Veronesi, Decimo festival dei due mondi. Leon Bakst, Spoleto, 1967, listed p. [17], no. 56.
Exhibition catalogue, Ballet in beeld bij Bakst, The Hague, 1968, listed no. 46.
Exhibition catalogue, Les Ballet Russes de Serge de Diaghilev 1909-1929, Strasbourg, 1969, listed p. 187, no. 348.
Exhibition catalogue, Bakst, London, 1973, listed p. [25], no. 90.

Milan, Rome and Munich, Galleria del Levante, Léon Bakst, May-November 1967, no. 56.
Spoleto, Palazzo Ancaiani, Decimo festival dei due mondi. Leon Bakst, 3-20 July 1967, no. 56.
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Ballet in beeld bij Bakst, 17 January-3 March 1968, no. 46.
Strasbourg, L’ancienne douane, Les Ballet Russes de Serge de Diaghilev 1909-1929, 15 May-15 September 1969, no. 348.
London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, 3 December 1973-4 January 1974, no. 90.
Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Diaghilev Ballet Costumes, 10 June-18 August 1974, no. 45 (label on the backboard).

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Costume design for 'La Belle au Bois Dormant': Mazurka dancer in gold

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