LEON BAKST (1866 -1924) Costume design ‘Slave Boy’ for Ballet Cleopatre, Les Ballets Russes - Sergei Diaghilev
Lot 52
13 00015 000
signed in pernsil (upper right)
gouache, pencil heightened with silver on paper laid on board
45 x 29 cm (framed 81 x 35.5 cm)
executed circa 1909
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, 06.05.70
Parmenia Migel Ekstrom collection (label on the reverse) (ballet historian and author, and founder and president of the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation)
Private collection
Exhibited:
New York, Stravinsky and Diaghilev, Cordier and Ekstrom Gal-lery (ill. No 6), 1973
London- Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society Centenary 1876-1976 (No 23) 1976
New York, Leon Bakst, Davis & Long Company, (No 9), 1977
San Antonio, Texas, Bakst, McNay Art Institute, (No 23) 1977
London, An Exhibition of Designs for the Russian Ballet, 1994 (ill. No 7)
London, Diaghilev –Creator of the Ballet Russe, Barbican Art Gallery, 1996 (No 103a)
Tokyo, A World of Stage, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2007
(+) This lot is under temporary importation and is subject to import tax (EU).