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Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York

Léon Bakst

Costume Design for Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose

Auction Closed

December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York

Léon Bakst

1866 - 1924

Costume Design for Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose


stamped with the artist's signature l.m.

watercolour heightened with silver over counterproof

Sheet: 48 by 32cm, 19 by 12½in.

Framed: 68.5 by 51cm, 27 by 20in.

Sotheby's London, Diaghilev Ballet Material, 18 July 1968, lot 1

d'Offay-Couper Gallery, London

Sotheby's London, Ballet and Theatre Material, 25 May 1977, lot 57

Acquired at the above sale by the present owners

London, d'Offay-Couper Gallery, Fifty Drawings, October-November 1968, no.3
Exhibition catalogue Fifty Drawings, London: d'Offay-Couper Gallery, 1968, p.4, no.3 illustrated