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LEON BAKST Soleil (Textile Design).
Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1922. 460x610 mm; 18 1/8x24 inches. Signed and titled in watercolor, lower right recto.
Published Spencer, Léon Bakst, New York, page 187, figure 194 (illustrated).
Ex-collection Evergreen House, Baltimore; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, with the label; Geraci Galleries, Rockport, Massachusetts, with the ink stamp verso; private collection, New Jersey.
One of Bakst's (1866-1924, see lot 259) last projects before his death was the transformation of his patrons John and Alice Warder Garrett's home bowling alley at Evergreen House in Baltimore into a marvelous Art Deco theater with lush fabrics and eye-catching patterns painted on columns, walls and ceilings. Bakst also designed the costumes, accessories and stage scenery for Mrs. Garrett's productions. His designs blended motifs from Russian folklore and simplistic embroidery patterns with the Art Deco style that was en vogue. Several of Bakst's designs still survive en situ at Evergreen House, now Evergreen Museum and Library, John Hopkins University.
