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 656

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'La Belle au bois dormant': Dame d’honneur avec le page portant le train

Closed23 October 2022

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La Belle au bois dormant': Dame d’honneur avec le page portant le train
signed 'Bakst' (lower right) and inscribed with production notes overall
pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (29.2 x 44.5 cm.)

Acquired by The Fine Art Society, London in 1986.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.

Specialist note

La Belle au bois dormant or The Sleeping Princess was a three-act ballet based on the story by Charles Perrault (1628-1703) brought to the stage by Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) and the dancers of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned Bakst to create the costumes and set for the ballet which opened in London at The Alhambra Theater on 2 November 1921.