1. Costume design: Prince Cendrillon, 5 act, Costume in White Velvet. pencil, watercolor and metallic paint on laid paper. 11 x 9 inches. Signed and dated l/r: Bakst 1921. Note: Reverse of mat stamped: G Rasamatt. Artist notes of costume colors verso. Bibliography: BAKST Leon and the Ballets Russes . Text by Charles Spencer. Academy Editions 1995 (illustrated on p. 208 ill 319 Provenance: Collection A. de Wayne Bethany; Sotheby’s Arcade, New York, 24 Feb 1994, lot 143; Auctions by the Bay, Alameda CA, sale 7.2.2007 lot 014. Compare: a pair for that costume (Cendrillon herself) was sold at Sotheby’s London 20 May 2005, lot 113.
2. Statue of Hippolyte, draft of an accessory for the tragedy “ Phaedre”, in Theatre Nationale d”Opera by D’Annunzio, music by I. Pizzetti,with Ida Rubinstein as Phedra, 1923 (Paris Grand Opera premiered 8.08. 1923). Watercolor and pencil on paper, stamped with signature low right, 9,5x13 inches, inscribed in Bakst handwriting with instructions to a costumer: “If necessary it is possible to make a “hero” even taller by enlarging the height of the cells” (additionally to the cells printed on paper the artist has added a system of cells in pencil). Illustrated (with a comment – is kept in an abroad private collection ) in “Lev BAKST”, text by S. Golynets, Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1991, p.47 ill 44. Provenance: Christie’s, New York 09 August 2005 Sale No: 1543 lot 138. In original Austrian secession hand carved and greenish blackened frame with cluster reeded sides and blossom filled meandering in the bottom
3. Draft of a costume design for “Sleeping Princess”, 1921. Pencil, watercolor on paper, 12.5x19 inches, stamped with signature low right. Provenance: Doyle, New York, sale 3.02.05 lot 5.
4. Costume design of a young Beothian in “Narcisse” for Diaghilev enterprise, 1911, pencil, watercolor and metallic paint on paper. 10 x 15 inches. Signed and dated l/r: Bakst 1911. Provenance: Andre Bakst, reverse stamped: G Rasamatt. Another quite different variant of the costume is published in BAKST Leon and the Ballets Russes by Charles Spencer. Academy Editions 1995 on p. 98 ill 151.
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