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
The Firebird, 1910
Nijinsky in L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912
Léon Bakst Media
Uriel da Costa (1897), an imaginary portrait of Biblical Criticism father and freedom of speech forerunner, was one of Léon Bakst earliest paintings
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.
Notes
- ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine retrieved December 16, 2009
Sources
- Marc Chagall, My Life, St.-Petersburg, Azbuka, 2000, ISBN 5-267-00200-3
Other websites
- Leon Bakst (official website) Archived 2015-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Working for Diaghilev
- BAKST at www.rollins.edu
- Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Archived 2012-12-11 at Archive.today at wwar.com
- Works by Leon Bakst at the Russian Art Gallery
- youtube
- Art Signature Dictionary - See Léon Bakst's signature, although the police seizure of counterfeit
- Baskt theatre and performance collection Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Evergreen collections that include original stage sets, costume designs, and other related works. Archived 2020-11-26 at the Wayback Machine