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Leon BAKST (1866-1924) "Project of costume for...

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Leon BAKST (1866-1924) "Project of costume for the ballet Salome" 1908. after Oscar Wilde. Mention in Cyrillic "Calomea".... Bears a n°3 on the lower right. Signed lower right. 32 x 16.8 cm. Folds and tears. Thanks to Diaghilev, future impresario of the Ballets Russes, Bakst made his debut in the field of the spectacle in Saint Petersburg, more particularly for the ballet: costumes of Sylvia (1901) [...] The Swan (1907) for Anna Pavlova, Salome (1908) for Ida Rubinstein.