Costume design for 'La Belle au bois dormant': Dame d’honneur avec le page portant le train

Details

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La Belle au bois dormant': Dame d’honneur avec le page portant le train
signed 'Bakst' (lower right) and inscribed with production notes overall
pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with silver, on paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (29.2 x 44.5 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired by The Fine Art Society, London in 1986.
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty in November 1995.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Diaghilev Ballet in England, London, 1979, illustrated on the cover, listed p. 40, no. 106.
C. Spencer, Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes, London, 1995, illustrated p. 205, listed p. 223, no. 313.

Exhibited

Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and London, The Fine Art Society, The Diaghilev Ballet in England, 11 October 1979-11 January 1980, no. 106.
Possibly, London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst and the Ballets Russes, 13 November-15 December 1995.

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Lot Essay

La Belle au bois dormant or The Sleeping Princess was a three-act ballet based on the story by Charles Perrault (1628-1703) brought to the stage by Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) and the dancers of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned Bakst to create the costumes and set for the ballet which opened in London at The Alhambra Theater on 2 November 1921.

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