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Lot 98
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Léon Bakst

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Léon Bakst
  • Costume Design for a Maréchal de la Cour in The Sleeping Princess
  • stamped with the artist's signature l.l. and inscribed in Latin l.r.; further bearing an exhibition label on the backing board
  • watercolour and pencil heightened with silver on paper
  • image size: 30.5 by 22cm, 12 by 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's London, Diaghilev Ballet Material, 18 July 1968, lot 6
Mr G.M. Pope, London

Exhibited

Strasbourg, L’Ancienne Douane, Les ballets russes de Serge de Diaghilev, 1909-1929, 15 May - 15 September 1969

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Les ballets russes de Serge de Diaghilev, 1909-1929, L’Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, 1969, p.185, no.340 listed