Costume design for 'Sadko': Indian guest

Details

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Sadko': Indian guest
signed and dated 'Bakst/1917' (lower right)
pencil and watercolor, heightened with gold, on paper
19 x 12 3/4 in. (48.2 x 32.4 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 295.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Tentoonstelling van aquarellen en teekeningen van den Russischen Kunstenannr Leo Bakst, The Hague, 1919, no. 7 as 'Perzische Ambassadeur'.

Exhibited

The Hague, Kunstzaal Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van aquarellen en teekeningen van den Russischen Kunstenannr Leo Bakst, 19 May-July 1919, no. 7.

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Lot Essay

In 1917 Bakst created a series of costume designs for an unrealized production of the opera Sadko by the Ballets Russes. This design was likely for the character of Indian merchant who had a dedicated aria – 'The Song of the Indian Guest'.

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