Art Price Index: Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes

Published on 14 June 2021, by Sophie Reyssat

This curated selection pays tribute to Léon Bakst’s drawings for the Ballets Russes.

€23,742Léon Bakst (1866–1924), ballet costume project, watercolor, pencil, gold highlights,... Art Price Index: Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes

€23,742
Léon Bakst (1866–1924), ballet costume project, watercolor, pencil, gold highlights, signed, 48 x 32 cm/18.90 x 12.60 in.
Paris, Drouot, November 28, 2014. Mathias-Baron Ribeyre & Associés, Farrando auction house. Cabinet Perazzone-Brun.

The Russian-born artist was in the vanguard of the aesthetic revolution in the performing arts. He started collaborating with Sergei Diaghilev in 1899 and designed his first sets in 1900 for the stages of Imperial Russia. In Paris, Bakst continued working as a stage designer for the Ballets Russes, for which he created many costumes. His sources of inspiration…

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