Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BAKST, LÉON.) Levinson, André. L'Oeuvre de Léon Bakst pour la Belle au Bois Dormant. Portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 2 vignettes, and 54 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards. Folio, original buff wrappers lettered in gold; a few gatherings mildly shaken as usual, some tissue guards creased; board slipcase, worn. Paris: De Brunoff, 1922
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number 19 of 500 copies signed by bakst. this copy additionally inscribed and signed by de brunoff to a colleague, dated 31 December 1930. Bakst's beautiful costume designs for Perrault's ballet accompanied by Tchaïkovsky's score.