LÉON BAKST | COSTUME DESIGNS FOR "THE MAYOR & LEPORELLO FROM DON JUAN REJECTED": A PAIR

Property from a New Orleans Collection

LÉON BAKST

1866 - 1924

COSTUME DESIGNS FOR "THE MAYOR & LEPORELLO FROM DON JUAN REJECTED": A PAIR

(I) Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1907 (lower right); titled (upper right)

(II) Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1907 (lower left); titled (upper right)

(I) Gouache, watercolor and pen and ink on paper

(II) Watercolor and pen and ink on paper

(I): 9¼ by 6⅛ in. (24 by 15 cm)

(II): 9½ by 5⅛ in. (24 by 13 cm)

Framed: (I) 18¼ by 14½ in. (46.5 by 37 cm),

Framed: (II) 18¼ by 13½ in. (46.5 by 34.5 cm)

Executed in 1907.