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Costume design
  • Costume design
    Bakst, Leon, born 1866 - died 1924
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Costume design

  • Date:

    1917 (drawn)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Bakst, Leon, born 1866 - died 1924 (costume designer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Watercolour on paper

  • Museum number:

    S.341-1988

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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The ballet Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (The Good-Humoured Ladies) is based on a play by the Venetian dramatist Carlo Goldoni. Leon Bakst's designs, like this for the flirtatious Felicita, communicate a great level of detail and sense of character, but also required considerable interpretation by the dressmaker, including how to preserve the dancer's modesty.

Physical description

Costume design by Leon Bakst for Felicita in Leonide Massine's ballet Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (The Good-Humoured Ladies), Diaghilev Ballets Russes, 1917. Full length figure of a young woman in a low cut 18th century style dress elaborately patterned with large blue flower motifs on a green-grey ground within a 'lattice', the edges and petticoat variously decorated with ruffles, tassels and leaves. She has a powdered wig and a blue choker and carries a fan in her right hand.

Date

1917 (drawn)

Artist/maker

Bakst, Leon, born 1866 - died 1924 (costume designer)

Materials and Techniques

Watercolour on paper

Marks and inscriptions

'felicita'
'bakst'

Dimensions

Height: 48.5 cm, Width: 32 cm

Descriptive line

Costume design by Leon Bakst for Felicita in Leonide Massine's ballet Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (The Good-Humoured Ladies), Diaghilev Ballets Russes, 1917.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Shead, Richard, Ballets Russes. London: Apple Press, 1989, p.86.

Materials

Paper; Watercolour

Techniques

Drawing (image-making)

Categories

Entertainment & Leisure; Designs

Collection code

T&P

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