Léon Bakst

Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (10 May 1866 – 27 December 1924) was a Russian painter. He designed the sets and costumes for some of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes productions. These were Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), and Daphnis et Chloé (1912). Bakst died in 1924 in Paris. In late 2010, the Victoria and Albert Museum presented an exhibition of Bakst's costumes and prints.^[1]

Ballets Russes costume designs

Léon Bakst - Carnival in Paris in Honour of the Russian Navy
Uriel da Costa (1897), an imaginary portrait of Biblical Criticism father and freedom of speech forerunner, was one of Léon Bakst earliest paintings
- Ancient horror
Léon Samoilovitch Bakst in 1916
One of Bakst's last paintings: Portrait of Rachel Strong, future Countess Henri de Boisgelin; 1924, oil on canvas, 130×89 cm, Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery.
Bakst's Portrait of Alexander Benois (1898), watercolour and pastel on paper, 65×100 cm, Russian Museum.
For Cléopâtre by Mikhail Fokine; 1910.
For Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel; 1912, watercolour on paper, 19×27 cm, Houghton Library.
For La Pisanelle où la Mort parfumée by Gabriele D'Annunzio; 1913, pencil, watercolour and gouache on cardboard, 24×39 cm, private collection.
The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; 1921, pencil and watercolour on paper, 48×67 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.