Description:

After Leon Samoilovich Bakst
(Russian, 1866-1924)
Costume design for La Legende de Joseph
watercolor, charcoal, colored pencil heightened with gold on paper
inscribed BAKST center left

  • Provenance: Footnote:
    La Légende de Joseph, a one act ballet of the Biblical story set in Renaissance Venice, was first performed by the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1914. These designs for costumes for Ladies in the Suite of Potiphar's Wife were commissioned by Serge Diagilev, founder of the Ballets Russe. They were intended as promotional drawings for the forthcoming London season of the Ballets Russes in the Illustrated London News. It is likely that they were executed by Ernst Stern in collaboration with Leon Bakst. The inscription of Bakst's name was done with Stern's approval and that of Diagilev according to Bakst's nieces, Mesdames Basacq and Tsipkevitch, who worked in Bakst's studio.
  • Dimensions: 13 x 10 1/2in (33 x 26.5cm)
  • Medium: watercolor, charcoal, colored pencil heightened with gold on paper
  • Condition: Framed 23 x 19in. Not examined out of frame. There is time staining to the paper and mat burn along the edges. The paper is buckled, particularly in the upper left and right corners. There is a dot of foxing along the lower left edge of the paper. There is some creasing along the extreme top edge which is visible through the window mat. Work has slipped a bit downward from top of mat.

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