Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(BAKST, LÉON.) Alexandre, Arséne. The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst. Notes by Jean Cocteau. Portrait frontispiece and 77 mounted plates including 50 color and 27 plain. Folio, publisher's 3/4 vellum gilt over marbled boards, mild rubbing mostly to bottom edges, green calf gilt spine label; hinges reinforced with a few small areas of color restoration on inside edges; custom chemise with gilt-lettered spine label and cloth slipcase. a lovely copy of the first english edition and the earliest of the major works on léon bakst. London: The Fine Art Society, 1913