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 655

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for a Young Peasant Girl

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for a Young Peasant Girl
signed and dated 'Bakst/1922' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
26 3/8 x 19 1/4 in. (67 x 48.7 cm.)

Mica Salabert (1896-1991), Paris.
Collections Mica Salabert; Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 8 June 1993, lot 140 (sold as 'Costume tunisien').
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 February 1998, lot 129.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Specialist note

This costume design was originally made for the pantomime production Russian Fair for Maria Kuznetsova’s Spectacles d'art russe, which Bakst then reproduced in a larger format on higher quality paper for his New York exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in December 1922.