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Leon Bakst designs
- Title
- Leon Bakst designs, circa 1911-1923.
- Author
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Still image | Supervised use | *T-Vim 2010-002 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- 1 box (11 drawings) : col.; 40 x 30 cm.
- Summary
- Original color costume and property designs, 6 for the theater production Phaedre (1923), by Gabriele D'Annunzio, translated by Doderet, music by Pizelli; and one for Aladin (undated).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Several of the designs contain handwritten notes in pencil; some are stamped with the artist's name.
- Folder 1 contains an undated portrait of Pierre Bertin as Paul in Aladin.
- Folders 2-7 contain designs for Phaedre (1923).
- Folders 8-9 contain costume designs for an unidentified production, possibly Helene de Sparte (1919).
- Folders 10-11 contain prop and set decoration designs for unidentified productions, possibly La pisanelle (1913) or The martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1911).
- Source (note)
- Nikita D. Lobanov
- Call Number
- *T-Vim 2010-002
- OCLC
- 667589556
- Author
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924. Artist
- Title
- Leon Bakst designs, circa 1911-1923.
- Biography
- Ballet, theater and opera designer, and artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was born in Hrodna, Belarus, and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. Some of Bakst's best-known works were for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He died at his home in Paris.
- Source
- Gift; Nikita D. Lobanov, 1976.
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- Research Call Number
- *T-Vim 2010-002