LOT DETAILS

Materials:

charcoal, watercolour and gouache, heightened with gold, on two joined sheets of paper

Measurements:

18.31 in. (46.50 cm.) (height) by 26.77 in. (68.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Bakst/1916' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, The Fine Art Society, Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of the work of Leon Bakst, 1927, no. 70. Milan, Galleria del Levante, Il Contibuto Russo alle avanguardie plastiche, 1964, no. 22. Milan, Rome, Munich, Galleria del Levante, Leon Bakst, 2 May-November, 1967, no. 38. Spoleto, Galleria del Levante, An exhibition for the centenary of Leon Bakst, 3-20 July 1967, no. 38. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Ballet in Beeld bij Bakst, 1968, no. 10. Strasbourg, L'Ancienne Douana, Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, 1969, no. 63. London, The Fine Art Society, Bakst: Centenary 1876-1976, 21 August-11 September 1976, no. 68.

Literature:

A. Levinson, The Story of Leon Bakst's Life, New York, 1922, illustrated p. 127. A. Levinson, Histoire de L. Bakst, Paris, 1924, pl. XXV. Exhibition catalogue, Il contributo russo alle avanguardie plastiche, Galleria del Levante, Milan, 1964, no. 22. Exhibition catalogue, Leon Bakst, Galleria del Levante, Milan, 1967, listed p. [17], illustrated p. [11], no. 38. C. Spencer, Leon Bakst, New York, 1973, illustrated p. 34, pl. II. Exhibition catalogue, Bakst: Centenary 1876-1976, The Fine Art Society, London, 1976, pp.47-48, illustrated p. 48, no. 102. Exhibition catalogue, Leon Bakst: Sensualismens Triumf, Stockholm, 1993, illustrated p. 109. C. Spencer, Bakst in Greece, Athens, 2009, illustrated p. 110.

Provenance:

Galleria del Levante, Munich. The Fine Art Society, London (at the time of the 1976 exhibition). Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 March 1982, lot 31. Acquired at thr above sale by the present owner.