Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
LÉON BAKST | HELEN OF SPARTA
Auction Closed
November 26, 01:34 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LÉON BAKST
1866 - 1924
HELEN OF SPARTA
signed in Latin and dated 1922 l.l.
gouache over pencil heightened with silver on artist's board
67.5 by 49cm, 26½ by 19¼in.
This reworking of an earlier costume design for Helen of Sparta was one of many Bakst created for the American market ahead of his first trip to New York and exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries. All these watercolours were executed in the same unusually large format and almost all are dated 1922.