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Lev Samoilovich Bakst, 1866-1924
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Description
- Lev Samoilovich Bakst
- costume design for the King's Huntsman from a production of sleeping beauty
- signed in Latin and dated 1921 l.r.
- watercolour over pencil on paper heightened with gold
- 33.5 by 22cm., 13¼ by 8¾ in.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, The Russian Sale, 17th July 1997, Lot 191
Exhibited
San Francisco Fine Art Museum, The Age of Enchantment: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, December 1988 - April 1989
Catalogue Note
Sleeping Beauty was performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London on 2nd November 1921.