#leon bakst

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Narcisse: A Bacchante

Leon Bakst

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Leon Bakst's costume designs for Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God)

Dieu bleu is a ballet in one act choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Reynaldo Hahn, set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa. Léon Bakst designed the sets and costumes.

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Elisium (1906) by Léon Bakst

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Leon Bakst (1866-1924) Theatrical Costume Design 1910

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This week's Twenties Tuesday garment is this silver lamé and cream satin dress with panniers that was designed by Léon Bakst for one of the twelve mazurka women in Serge Diaghilev's 1921 London production of the ballet The Sleeping Princess. London Museum collection.

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Léon Bakst - Design for the costume of Carabosse in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty (1921)

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Leon Bakst - The poet Zinaida Gippius (1906)

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Leon Bakst - Portrait of Anna Pavlova (1908). Drawn before his famous stage designs, it shows a simple and calm image of the dancer, focused only on her face and expression. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com