Live Auction 21607The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Day Sale
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Lot 642

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'Scheherazade': Almée

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Scheherazade': Almée
signed and dated 'BAKST/1910' (lower right)
pencil and watercolor, heightened with gold, on paper
14 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. (37.5 x 21.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 289.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Specialist note

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. This costume design is for the character 'Almée', the favorite female slave of the Shah.