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Léon Bakst
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Léon Bakst
- Le monstre de la guerre
- signed in Latin l.l.; further titled, variously inscribed and bearing labels on the reverse
- pencil on artist's board
- 33.5 by 49cm, 13 1/4 by 19 1/4 in.
Provenance
Sotheby's London, Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 16 June 1992, lot 97
Exhibited
The Hague, Kunstzall Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van aquarellen en teekeningen van den Russischen Kunstenaar Leo Bakst, May-July 1918
New York, M. Knoedler & Co, Leon Bakst, 10-24 April 1920, no.66
New York, M. Knoedler & Co, Leon Bakst, 10-24 April 1920, no.66
Literature
W.Stevens (ed.), The Soul of Russia, London: Macmillan and Co., 1916, illustrated with added colour on the cover and titled The Arrow of the Allies
Exhibition catalogue Leon Bakst, New York, 1920, no.66 listed as Le Monstre de la Guerre
Exhibition catalogue Leon Bakst, New York, 1920, no.66 listed as Le Monstre de la Guerre
Catalogue Note
The Soul of Russia was a publication intended to bring about better understanding between Britain and Russia, and to raise money for the war effort. The present lot, with added colour, was used on the cover and was annotated thus: 'This picture represents the Dragon of Prussian militarism destroying churches, driving people from their ruined homes, but arrested in his desolating work, transfixed by the arrow of the Allies darting from the sun of righteousness'.