<p>Léon Bakst
1866 - 1924
COSTUME DESIGN
signed in Latin l.r.
watercolour over pencil heightened with gold on paper laid on cardboard
47 by 32cm, 18 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.
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The present lot may be a design for Le Dieu Bleu, first staged in Paris in 1912 at the Théâtre du Châtelet with both set and costume designs by Bakst.
Bakst
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