Lev Samoilovich Bakst, 1866-1924

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Description

Lev Samoilovich Bakst
study of a veiled woman and a dancing boy
pencil on paper
27.2 by 20.5cm., 10 3/4 by 8 in

Provenance

Family of the Artist, Paris

Fine Art Society, London

Sotheby's Auction, London, 13th NOvember 1990, lot 156

Exhibited

London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, September-October 1976

Catalogue Note

These sketches may have been made during Bakst's visit to Greece with Valentin Serov during May 1907. Together they visited Athens, Crete, Corinth, Delphi, Patras, Olympia and Corfu. Similar drawings can be seen in one of Bakst's sketchbooks in the New York Public Library at the Lincoln Center.