Leon (Lev Samoilovich) Bakst

Design sketches for ‘The Sleeping Princess’ (1921)

Grodno 1886 - Paris 1924

Pencil on Savoy Hotel headed stationery, four designs framed as one;
two set designs, two costume designs, 18x21.5 cm.
Bibliography: Charles Spencer, Leon Bakst, Academy Editions, 1973
Alexander Schouvaloff, Bakst, The Theatre Art, Sotheby’s Publications, 1991 Diana Souhami Bakst, the Rothschild Panels of the Sleeping Beauty,
Philip Wilson, 1992