Details
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for Jane Marnac
signed 'Bakst' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
19 1/2 x 13 in. (49.5 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1910s
Provenance
with Galleria del Levante, Milan.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 23 October 1980, lot 169a.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London,19 December 1996, lot 160.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Léon Bakst Milan, 1967, illustrated p. [21], listed p. [17], no. 40 as 'Shéhérazade -1916. Costume pour Jane Marnac'.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst London, 1973, illustrated p. 74, listed p. 228, no. 51 as 'Shéhérazade, 1910 Costume for Jane Marnac'.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes, London, 1995, illustrated p. 83, listed p. 221, no. 125 as 'Variation of the costume for Zobeide 1916'.
Exhibited
Milan, Rome and Munich, Galleria del Levante, Léon Bakst 2 May-November 1967, no. 40.
Details
LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for Jane Marnac
signed 'Bakst' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
19 1/2 x 13 in. (49.5 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1910s
Provenance
with Galleria del Levante, Milan.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 23 October 1980, lot 169a.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London,19 December 1996, lot 160.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Léon Bakst Milan, 1967, illustrated p. [21], listed p. [17], no. 40 as 'Shéhérazade -1916. Costume pour Jane Marnac'.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst London, 1973, illustrated p. 74, listed p. 228, no. 51 as 'Shéhérazade, 1910 Costume for Jane Marnac'.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes, London, 1995, illustrated p. 83, listed p. 221, no. 125 as 'Variation of the costume for Zobeide 1916'.
Exhibited
Milan, Rome and Munich, Galleria del Levante, Léon Bakst 2 May-November 1967, no. 40.
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