Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 137.2 × 99.1 cm (54 × 39 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Léon Bakst
Artist
Painting
Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed the décor for such productions as Carnaval (1910), Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis and Chloe (1912), The Sleeping Princess (1921) and others.
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Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
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- Léon Bakst
- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 137.2 × 99.1 cm (54 × 39 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-134752
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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