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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE MONTY AND BARBIE PASSES: SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'Sadko': Maiden

Name: LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Brand: Costume design for 'Sadko': Maiden
Price: 22000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 27,500

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Costume design for 'Sadko': Maiden

Price Realised GBP 27,500

LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'Sadko': Maiden
signed and dated 'Bakst/1917' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper laid on paper
26⁷⁄₈ x 19¹⁄₈ in. (68.4 x 48.5 cm.)

with Brook Street gallery, London (label on the backboard).
Acquired from the above by Monty and Barbie Passes, London.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibition catalogue, Russian Art and Life, Hove, 1961, listed p. 10, no. 174.
Exhibition catalogue, Bakst, London, 1973, listed p. [15], no. 25.

Hove, The Hove Museum of Art, Russian Art and Life, 17 June-16 July 1961, no. 174.
London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst, 3 December 1973-4 January 1974, no. 25.
Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Exhibition of Diaghilev Ballet Costumes, 10 July-18 August 1974, no. 2 (label on the backboard).

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Lot Essay

Léon Bakst first worked on the costume designs for the opera Sadko with music by the renowned composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) as part of the 1911 production at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. The fish motif on the maiden's tunic was later re-used by Bakst for the decoration of the Evergreen Theatre in Baltimore in 1923.