Live Auction 21607The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Day Sale
ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Lot 641

ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for an Oriental dancer

Closed23 October 2022

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ATTRIBUTED TO LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for an Oriental dancer
with signature and date 'Bakst/1910' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (34.5 x 25 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 October 1990, lot 375 as 'Costume design for Cleopatra - a Dancer'.
Charles Spencer Esq. (1920-2010), London.
with The Fine Art Society, London, November 1995.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.

Specialist note

This work was previously described by Charles Spencer as a costume design for the renowned dancer Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) who starred in the principal role of Sergei Diaghilev’s (1872-1929) Ballets Russes ballet Cleopatra. The ballet premiered on 2 June 1909 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with choreography by Michel Fokine (1880-1942) and designs by Léon Bakst.