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Lot 93
Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Hélène de Sparte': Menelaus
Closed4 June 2018
Price Realised
GBP 27,500
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Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Hélène de Sparte': Menelaus
signed 'Bakst' (lower right); inscribed with production and costume notes (upper right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
10 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (27 x 24.5 cm.)
Executed in 1912
Costume design for 'Hélène de Sparte': Menelaus
signed 'Bakst' (lower right); inscribed with production and costume notes (upper right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
10 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (27 x 24.5 cm.)
Executed in 1912
Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Hélène de Sparte': Menelaus
signed 'Bakst' (lower right); inscribed with production and costume notes (upper right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
10 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (27 x 24.5 cm.)
Executed in 1912
Costume design for 'Hélène de Sparte': Menelaus
signed 'Bakst' (lower right); inscribed with production and costume notes (upper right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
10 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (27 x 24.5 cm.)
Executed in 1912
Family of the artist.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s London, 15 December 1977, lot 24B.
Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (1908-1989) Collection, New York.
with Julian Barran, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1994.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s London, 15 December 1977, lot 24B.
Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (1908-1989) Collection, New York.
with Julian Barran, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1994.
A. Schouvaloff, Léon Bakst: The theatre art, London, 1991, illustrated p. 133.
Exhibition catalogue, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, Tokyo, 2007, illustrated p. 42, no. 8.
C. Spencer, Bakst in Greece, Athens, 2009, illustrated p. 157.
A. Purvis, et al., The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design, New York, 2009, illustrated p. 10, listed p. 11.
Exhibition catalogue, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, Tokyo, 2007, illustrated p. 42, no. 8.
C. Spencer, Bakst in Greece, Athens, 2009, illustrated p. 157.
A. Purvis, et al., The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design, New York, 2009, illustrated p. 10, listed p. 11.
Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, 17 April-28 October 2007, no. 8.
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