Léon Bakst facts for kids
Self-portrait, 1893

Scene for Scheherazade

Scene for Scheherazade
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.
Ballets Russes costume designs
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The Firebird, 1910
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Nijinsky in L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912
- Marc Chagall, My Life, St.-Petersburg, Azbuka, 2000, ISBN: 5-267-00200-3
Images for kids
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Waddesdon Manor holds a 'Bakst room' which holds seven Sleeping Beauty panels commissioned from Bakst in 1913.
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Andrei Bely, 1905
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Costume of Cléopâtre for Ida Rubinstein, 1909
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