Lot Essay
Sophocles' play premièred at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, on 9 January 1904, in the same season as productions of 'Antigone' and Euripides' 'Hippolytus'.
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Costume design for Oedipus at Colonnus: Theseus
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Lev Samoilovich Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for Oedipus at Colonnus: Theseus
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower right) and inscribed in Russian 'Oedipus in Colonnus/Theseus' (upper left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver and gold, on paper
11 x 8¼ in. (25.3 x 21 cm.)
Costume design for Oedipus at Colonnus: Theseus
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower right) and inscribed in Russian 'Oedipus in Colonnus/Theseus' (upper left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver and gold, on paper
11 x 8¼ in. (25.3 x 21 cm.)
Provenance
with Grosvenor Gallery, London.
Literature
C. Spencer, Leon Bakst, London, 1978, p. 227, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst and The Ballet Russes, 13 November-15 December 1995, no. 9.
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