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Costume design for 'Don Juan Refute': Don Gaspar
Details
Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Don Juan Refute': Don Gaspar
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower left); inscribed in Russian with title (upper left) and costume notes (centre right)
pencil, ink and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
8 ¾ x 6 1/8 in. (22.5 x 15.2 cm.)
Costume design for 'Don Juan Refute': Don Gaspar
signed in Cyrillic 'L Bakst' (lower left); inscribed in Russian with title (upper left) and costume notes (centre right)
pencil, ink and gouache, heightened with gold, on paper
8 ¾ x 6 1/8 in. (22.5 x 15.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1994, lot 47.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, Tokyo, 2007, illustrated p. 111, no. 108.
Exhibited
New York, Davis & Long, Leon Bakst, 2-26 February 1977, no. 3 (label on backboard).
San Antonio, McNay Art Institute, Bakst, 15 March-17 April 1977 (label on backboard).
Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, 17 April-28 October 2007, no. 108.
San Antonio, McNay Art Institute, Bakst, 15 March-17 April 1977 (label on backboard).
Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance, 17 April-28 October 2007, no. 108.
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