Lot Essay
Executed in 1910
According to Charles Spencer, this work bears remarkable similarities to the decor Bakst created for the Prologue of La Pisanella in 1913, by d'Annunzio, written for Ida Rubinstein, Paris. They are both Byzantine conceptions, with typically low, diametrical vaulting, with religious paintings and images of saints on the walls and in niches.
Comparisons can also be made with the decors of the great Russian painter Vrubel, who had trained as a restorer of Russian church art.
We are grateful to Charles Spencer for his help in cataloguing this lot
According to Charles Spencer, this work bears remarkable similarities to the decor Bakst created for the Prologue of La Pisanella in 1913, by d'Annunzio, written for Ida Rubinstein, Paris. They are both Byzantine conceptions, with typically low, diametrical vaulting, with religious paintings and images of saints on the walls and in niches.
Comparisons can also be made with the decors of the great Russian painter Vrubel, who had trained as a restorer of Russian church art.
We are grateful to Charles Spencer for his help in cataloguing this lot