Lot 764
  • 764

Léon Bakst

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Léon Bakst
  • Preliminary Study for the Decor for Phèdre, Act I
  • pencil on graph paper
  • 21 by 28.5cm, 8 1/4 by 11 1/4 in.
  • executed circa 1923.

Provenance

Family of the artist, Paris
Sotheby’s London, 23 October 1980, lot 235

Exhibited

London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, 3 December - 4 January 1974, no.102

Condition

Executed on graph paper, not laid down, and taped to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The paper has discoloured. There is a vertical crease across the centre of the sheet, a horizontal crease along the bottom and some creasing in the corners.There is a fold along the bottom edge. Held in a simple wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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