Léon Bakst

Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (10 May 1866 – 27 December 1924) was a Russian painter. He designed the sets and costumes for some of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes productions. These were Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), and Daphnis et Chloé (1912). Bakst died in 1924 in Paris. In late 2010, the Victoria and Albert Museum presented an exhibition of Bakst's costumes and prints.

Self-portrait, 1893

Scene for Scheherazade

Scene for Scheherazade

Ballets Russes costume designs

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  Cléopatre, 1909
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  The Firebird, 1910
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  Nijinsky in L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912
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  Bakst costume design for The Blue God

Sources

• Marc Chagall, My Life, St.-Petersburg, Azbuka, 2000, ISBN 5-267-00200-3

Other websites

• Leon Bakst (official website) Archived 2015-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Working for Diaghilev
• BAKST at www.rollins.edu
• Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Archived 2012-12-11 at Archive.today at wwar.com
• Works by Leon Bakst at the Russian Art Gallery
• youtube
• Art Signature Dictionary - See Léon Bakst's signature, although the police seizure of counterfeit
• Baskt theatre and performance collection Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine at the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Evergreen collections that include original stage sets, costume designs, and other related works. Archived 2020-11-26 at the Wayback Machine