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 643

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Fantaisie sur un costume moderne, Dioné

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Fantaisie sur un costume moderne, Dioné
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
17 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (44 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1922

Collection of Iain Harrison, England.
with The Fine Art Society, London, by 1976.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in February 1995.

Specialist note

Besides working in theatre design, Bakst was interested in fashion and some of his designs for women’s fashion and textiles were reproduced in popular fashion magazines like Journal des Dames et des Modes of the time. Bakst made a version of the current fashion design without the blue veil in 1912, and it was realized as a dress by the fashion house Paquin. In 1922 the artist returned to some of his 'fantasies', including Dioné, and made them in a larger size, adding colorful Art Deco style veils around the figures. A similar work from 1922, Alcyone is in the collection of the Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg.