(BAKST, LÉON) | L'Art decoratif de Léon Bakst. Essai critique par Arséne Alexandre. Notes sur les ballets par Jean Cocteau. Paris: Maurice de Brunoff, 1913

(BAKST, LÉON)

L'Art decoratif de Léon Bakst. Essai critique par Arséne Alexandre. Notes sur les ballets par Jean Cocteau. Paris: Maurice de Brunoff, 1913

4to (15 3/4 x 11 in.; 400 x 279 mm, uncut). Printed in red and black, mounted photographic frontispiece portrait of Bakst, woodcut headpieces by Bakst, 77 mounted color and monochrome plates (some folding) from drawings by Bakst. Publisher's half vellum gilt, green morocco gilt lettering-piece on spine, marbled boards, top edges gilt; some wear and soiling,  

This lavish edition depicts costume and stage designs by Bakst for the Ballets Russes from 1901 on.

PROVENANCE

M. M. Colby (?) (signature on front free endpaper) — Vincent Korda, art director for numerous important Hollywood films from the 1930's through the 1960's (invoice from Marlborough Rare Books laid in)