Lot 760
  • 760

Léon Bakst

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Léon Bakst
  • Costume Design for Schumann's Carnaval
  • signed in Latin and dated 10 (lower right). and inscribed in Cyrillic and Latin (upper right)
  • watercolour over pencil on paper
  • 25 by 21.5cm, 11 by 8 1/2 in.
  • executed in 1910.

Provenance

Galleria del Levante, Milan
Willoughy Norman
Sotheby's London, 13 March 1980, lot 54

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Hommage à Diaghilev, 1939
Milan, Rome, Munich, Galleria del Levante, Leon Bakst, 1967, no.6

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Leon Bakst, Milan: Galeria de Levante, 1967, no.6 listed as Costume pour la valse noble

Condition

Very slight discolouration to the edges of the sheet, otherwise in excellent condition. Held in gold-painted frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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