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Lot 20*

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

27 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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

'Huntress'
signed and dated '1922' (lower left), verso affixed with two gallery labels on the stretcher 'Leon Bakst / Exhibition at the Arts Club of Chicago / Une Chasseresse Louis Phillipe,' and '#17 / Huntress / By Leon Bakst,' verso of canvas indistinctly stamped 'G. RASAMAT...Leon Bakst'
gouache on canvas
104 1/2 x 74 1/2cm (40 15/16 x 29 1/8in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Collection of Mme Tispskevitch, niece of Leon Bakst
Collection of Gilberte Cournand (1913-2005), French ballet critic for Figaro, Paris, c. 1970s
Thence by descent

EXHIBITED
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Leon Bakst, 12 March to 5 April 1923, #19

LITERATURE
André Levinson, Bakst, London, The Bayard Press, London, 1923, plate XLIII, entitled 'A Huntress. A Decorative panel'

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