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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Sadko': Maiden
signed and dated 'Bakst/1917' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper laid on paper
2678 x 1918 in. (68.4 x 48.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Brook Street gallery, London (label on the backboard).
Acquired from the above by Monty and Barbie Passes, London.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Russian Art and Life, Hove, 1961, listed p. 10, no. 174.
Exhibition catalogue, Bakst, London, 1973, listed p. [15], no. 25.
Exhibited
Hove, The Hove Museum of Art, Russian Art and Life, 17 June-16 July 1961, no. 174.
London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, 3 December 1973-4 January 1974, no. 25.
Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Exhibition of Diaghilev Ballet Costumes, 10 July-18 August 1974, no. 2 (label on the backboard).
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Léon Bakst first worked on the costume designs for the opera Sadko with music by the renowned composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) as part of the 1911 production at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. The fish motif on the maiden's tunic was later re-used by Bakst for the decoration of the Evergreen Theatre in Baltimore in 1923.

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