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Bakst designed the costumes for the production of Euripedes' Hippolyte which opened on 14th October 1902 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg.
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A costume design for Hippolyte; A Messenger
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Lev Samoilovich Bakst (1866-1924)
A costume design for Hippolyte; A Messenger
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower left) and inscribed in Russian 'First study for the costume of the messenger/(Hippolyte)' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and silver, on paper laid on card
12 3/8 x 9¼ in. (31.4 x 23.5 cm.)
A costume design for Hippolyte; A Messenger
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower left) and inscribed in Russian 'First study for the costume of the messenger/(Hippolyte)' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and silver, on paper laid on card
12 3/8 x 9¼ in. (31.4 x 23.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York, 1962.
Exhibited
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1962, no. 2.
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