MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 25-27 November 2019

25 November 2019

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Corregidor and Leporello, Costume Designs for the Play "Don Juan Rejected"

263. BAKST, LÉON (1866–1924)

Corregidor and Leporello, Costume Designs for the Play "Don Juan Rejected", two works, each signed, titled in Cyrillic, one twice, and dated 1907, one variously inscribed.

Each ink and watercolour, one heightened with white, on paper, laid on cardboard and paper respectively, one measuring 24 by 15.5 and the other 24 by 13 cm.
4,000–6,000 GBP


Provenance: Collection of S. Raffalovitch (1875–1943), Paris.
Ballet and Theatre Material, Sotheby’s London, 6 June 1979, lots 13 and 14.

Literature: For Leporello, see A. Schouvaloff, Léon Bakst, London, Sotheby’s Publishers, 1991, p. 51, illustrated in black and white.

The works are from Bakst’s set of stage and costume designs for the Serge Raffalovitch play Don Juan Rejected, premiered at the First Touring Theatre (Pervyi peredvizhnoi teatr), St Petersburg, on 12 March 1907.

Corregidor and Leporello, Costume Designs for the Play "Don Juan Rejected"

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