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[Sketchbook.

Title
[Sketchbook.
Author
Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924.
Publication
1907?]

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Description
1 sketchbook ([80] leaves) : pencil and watercolor; 21 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Nikita D. Lobanov.
Note
  • By appointment only. To make an appointment email dance@nypl.org.
  • Artist's sketchbook, probably from his 1907 visit to Greece and Crete.
  • Rectos numbered in pencil; leaves [31]-[37], [39]-[69], [71]-[74], [76]-[80] blank. The numbered leaves do not include 18 leaves which have been removed.
  • Illustrations: pencil, and pencil-watercolor sketches of Grecian landscapes, buildings, people, seascapes, costumes, many from Knossos.
  • Four pencil sketches and one watercolor-pencil sketch laid in between leaves [39] and [40].
  • Leaf [1] signed: L. Bakst, Hôtel Grande-Bretagne Athènes.
  • Includes the artist's annotations in Russian.
Call Number
(S) *MGZGV-Res.
OCLC
NYPY926049188-F
Author
Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924.
Title
[Sketchbook.
Imprint
1907?]
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Local Subject
Costume designs -- 20th century.
Set designs -- 20th century.
Dance -- Greece.
Research Call Number
(S) *MGZGV-Res.
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