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 654

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'Aladin ou la Lampe Merveilleuse': Le Marchand de tapis

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Aladin ou la Lampe Merveilleuse': Le Marchand de tapis
inscribed '1 Marchand de tapis "Rue à Bellville".' (lower right edge)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (34.2 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1919

Georges Rasamatt (1899-1991), Paris, after 1924 (stamp on the backing paper).
Collection of Mrs. Selma Baird.
The Property of the late Mrs. Selma Baird; Sotheby’s, London, 2 July 1947, lot 132 (part).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 15 December 1994, lot 130.
Acquired at the above sale by The Fine Art Society, London.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.

Specialist note

This design for a carpet seller was one of several hundred costume designs that Bakst created for the music hall production Aladin ou la Lampe merveilleuse for Georges Thenon (1884-1941), under the pseudonym of RIP, which premiered on 20 May 1919 at Théâtre Marigny, Paris. The production consisted of eleven scenes; one of which was called 'Belleville'.