Costume design for a Young Peasant Girl

Details

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for a Young Peasant Girl
signed and dated 'Bakst/1922' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
26 3/8 x 19 1/4 in. (67 x 48.7 cm.)

Provenance

Mica Salabert (1896-1991), Paris.
Collections Mica Salabert; Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 8 June 1993, lot 140 (sold as 'Costume tunisien').
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 February 1998, lot 129.
Acquired at the above sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Recent Works by Bakst, New York, 1922, listed p. [5].

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Recent Works by Bakst, 6-16 December 1922.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This costume design was originally made for the pantomime production Russian Fair for Maria Kuznetsova’s Spectacles d'art russe, which Bakst then reproduced in a larger format on higher quality paper for his New York exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in December 1922.

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