Léon Bakst facts for kids

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Bakst self
Self-portrait, 1893
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) 02 by L. Bakst 2
Scene for Scheherazade
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) 02 by L. Bakst
Scene for Scheherazade

Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (10 May 1866 – 28 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

  • Costume of Cleopatra for Ida Rubinstain

    Cléopatre, 1909

  • Léon Bakst 001

    The Firebird, 1910

  • Bakst Nizhinsky

    Nijinsky in L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912

  • Le Dieu Bleu Nijinsky

    Bakst costume design for The Blue God

Images for kids

  • Léon Samoilovitch Bakst in 1916

    Bakst in 1916

  • Bakst Uzhin

    Supper, 1902

  • Bakst bely

    Andrei Bely, 1905

  • Z. Gippius by L.Bakst (1906, Tretyakov gallery)

    Zinaida Gippius, 1906


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