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 645

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for Jane Marnac

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for Jane Marnac
signed 'Bakst' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
19 1/2 x 13 in. (49.5 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1910s

with Galleria del Levante, Milan.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 23 October 1980, lot 169a.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London,19 December 1996, lot 160.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Specialist note

This design by Bakst has been reproduced in literature as the Belgian actress Jane Marnac (1892-1976) in the costume of 'Zobeide', the favourite wife of the Shah in the ballet Scheherazade. In the 1910 production by the Ballets Russes, Ida Rubinstein (1880-1960) performed the role of 'Zobeide'. Although Marnac never danced with the Ballets Russes, she did attend the opening night of the 1909 Paris season and it has been suggested that Bakst made this design specifically for her.