Costume design for L'adoration: Maria Kuznetsova

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Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for L'adoration: Maria Kuznetsova
signed and dated 'Bakst/22' (lower right), stamped 'M. NIJINSKY' (upper left)
pencil and gouache on paper
11 3/8 x 8½ in. (28.9 x 21.4 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1992, lot 86.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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拍品專文

The design for this costume, Maria Kuznetsova's role in L'adoration, appeared on the cover of the programme printed for this production (see Alexander Schouvaloff, Léon Bakst: The Theatre Art, London, 1991, illustrated p. 218). L'adoration was one of two programmes performed at the Théâtre Fémina in Paris on 9 April 1922.

Costume design for L'adoration: Maria Kuznetsova

拍品專文

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