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COSTUMES FOR TCHAIKOVSKY’S SLEEPING BEAUTY, WITH 56 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY LÉON BAKST AND PORTRAIT OF BAKST BY PICASSO, SIGNED BY BAKST: LARGE FOLIO LIMITED EDITION

BAKST, Léon. L'Oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant. Paris, 1922.

Signed limited first French edition, number 308 of only 500 copies signed by both Bakst and publisher Maurice de Brunoff, with 56 mounted color plates (54 full-page costumes and sets for the Ballet Russes, with letterpress tissue-guards), and a portrait of Bakst by Picasso. $7500.

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WITH 68 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES AND PORTRAIT OF BAKST BY MODIGLIANI

(BAKST, Leon) LEVINSOHN, Andre. Leon Bakst. Berlin, 1925.

Limited first German edition of Levinsohn's life of Bakst, number 23 of only 250 copies produced, tracing the artist's important contributions to the history of modern art and dance, with 68 full-page mounted plates of costumes and sets, 52 in color, including the frontispiece portrait of Bakst by Modigliani, and numerous in-text mounted linecuts and photogravures, many also in color. $4000.

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COSTUMES FOR TCHAIKOVSKY’S SLEEPING PRINCESS, WITH 56 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY LÉON BAKST AND A PORTRAIT OF BAKST BY PICASSO

BAKST, Léon. Designs of Leon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess. New York, 1923.

Limited first edition, number 204 of 500 copies in the American issue (total edition of 1,000), with 56 mounted color plates by Bakst (54 of costumes and sets, with letterpress tissue-guards), and a lithographic pen-and-ink portrait of Bakst by Picasso. $3800.

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