Lot 266
  • 266

Lev Samoilovich Bakst

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lev Samoilovich Bakst
  • Costume design for a young attendant to Menelas in a production of Helen de Sparte
  • signed in Latin and dated 1912 l.r., also titled in Latin t.r.
  • watercolour over pencil heightened with gold paint
  • image size: 27 by 21cm., 10 1/2 by 8 1/4 in.

Condition

The sheet appears sound. The work is clean and ready to hang. Held in a simple black wood frame and behind glass; unexamined out of frame.
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