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Lot 37
Lev Samoilovich Bakst
(Leon Bakst) (Russian, 1866-1924)
Costume design for Artemis in Hippolytus
8 June 2011, 10:00 BST
New Bond Street

Sold for £3,600 inc. premium

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Lev Samoilovich Bakst (Leon Bakst) (Russian, 1866-1924)

Costume design for Artemis in Hippolytus
signed in Cyrillic (lower right); variously annotated throughout
pencil, ink and watercolour heightened with gouache and silver paint on paper
27.5 x 21cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/4in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Phillips London, 27 November 1989, Russian 20th Century and Avant Garde Art, lot 5
Private collection

Bakst designed sets and costumes for Euripides' Hippolytus in 1902 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

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