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Theatre Design

1922 (made)
Artist/Maker
Léon Bakst (designer)
Sergei Diaghilev (designed for)
Place of origin
France (made)

Design for the décor of a room with a Majolica Stove.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Theatre
Object type
Theatre design
Materials and techniques
Water- and bodycolour over pencil.
Pencil
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Léon Bakst. Design for a ballet set, the décor of a room with a Majolica Stove by Léon Bakst; watercolour over pencil; 1922. Designed for Diaghilev
Physical description
Design for the décor of a room with a Majolica Stove.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33cm
  • Length: 49cm
Taken from Salmina-Haskell, L, Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 7, cat. 7.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Bakst 1922
Object history
This excellent drawing came to the Museum under the name of André Bakst (Léon's son). When it was exhibited in Edinburgh in 1954, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher attributed it to Léon Bakst himself and connected it with Stravinsky's opera Mavra, for which the décor was eventually designed not by Bakst but by Leopold Survage.
Subjects depicted
Room
Stove
Majolica
Bibliographic references
  • Salmina-Haskell, L, Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 7, cat. 7.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937, London: Board of Education, 1938.
  • Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev : 1909-1929. Strasbourg : Ville de Strasbourg, 1969 no.66
  • The Diaghilev Exhibition Catalogue, College of Art, Lauriston Place, 1954 no.130a
  • Buckle, Richard (ed.) The Diaghilev exhibition from the Edinburgh Festival, 1954, London : Forbes House, 1954 no. 123
  • Stravinsky and the Dance : a survey of ballet productions, 1910-1962, in honor of the eightieth birthday of Igor Stravinsky, New York, Dance Collection of the New York Public Library, 1962 no.1
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.841-1937

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
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