MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 1-2 Dec 2010
1 December 2010
101. BAKST, LÉON 1866-1924
The Designs of Léon Bakst for the Sleeping Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky. The preface by André Levinson, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923 Fifty-four mounted colour plates, and two mounted colour illustrations; tipped in portrait of Bakst by Picasso.
3,000-5,000 GBP
Number 484 from a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, of which 500 were reserved for the United States of America.
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