Bakst, L'oeuvre pour la Belle au bois dormant, Paris, 1922, printed wrappers

LEVINSON, ANDRÉ

L'OEUVRE DE LÉON BAKST POUR LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT. PARIS: M. DE BRUNOFF, 1922

4to (394 x 290mm.), copy no.465 of a limited edition of 500 copies, with ink signature of Bakst and printed signature of Brunoff below limitation, frontispiece portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 54 tipped-in colour plates (reproducing Bakst's designs) with printed tissue guards, original printed wrappers with glassine covers, uncut

Tchaikovsky's ballet, based on the Brothers Grimm version of Charles Perrault's tale of the Sleeping Beauty, was premiered in Moscow in 1891; the 1921 production in London had choreography by Serge Diaghilev and costume and set designs by Bakst, and it was this production that gained Tchaikovsky's ballet its enduring popularity.