Artworks by Leon Bakst at Russian Art Salon on artnet

Leon Bakst

Set design for Scheherazade (Scheherezade bedroom), 1910

Price on Request

Set design for opera "Boris Godunov" by M. Musorgski in Diaghilev enterprise, 1910

40,000 USD

Two costume designs, ca. 1910

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Four costume designs, ca. 1910–1920

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Nijinsky in ballet "JAR-PTITSA" (costume after Bakst)

3,000 USD

Cavalier, 1921

800 USD

Two original maquettes of program covers for Ballets Russe 1912, 1912

50,000 USD

1866: Born May 10 in Grodno, Belarus, Russia
1898: Bakst, Benois, and Serge Diaghilev founded the group Mir Iskusstva (World of Art)
1902 - 1903: Created stage designs for the Hermitage and Aleksandrinskii theatres in St. Petersburg
1903 - 1904: Fulfilled several commissions for the Marinskii theatre
1906: Became a teacher of drawing at Yelizaveta Zvantseva's private school, where Marc Chagall was one of his students
1909: Began his collaboration with Diaghilev, which resulted in the founding of the Ballets Russes, and Bakst serving as the artistic director
1912: Settled in Paris, France
1924: Died December 27 in Paris, France
: Also known as Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg

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