LEON BAKST and Ballets Russes

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Léon Bakst 1866-1924, Design for Fokine's "Les Orientales", 1982.75:678

From 1908 to 1922, Russian-born Bakst designed sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev's troupe.

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From Lobgott Pipzam's ever wondrous blog, here are a bunch of illustrations by Leon Bakst for sundry ballets. Painter, avant-gardist, graphic artist, set designer, multifaceted man. Illustrations from John Bowlt's Masterpieces of Russian Stage Design, 1880-1930: From the collection of Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky.

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Costume design by Leon Bakst for Likenion in Mikhail Fokine's ballet Daphnis and Chloë (revised version), Diaghilev Ballets Russes, 1913.

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Bakst, Opera Garnier

Last month when I shared La Boutique Fantasque music and album covers, I also included a Bakst costume, with the instructions to myself to ...

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