Halloween 2020

F e a t u r e d I t e m s 4 Fine New Acquisitions H alloween 2020 Ballet Russe Costumes, Signed By Bakst 2. BAKST, Léon. L’Oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant . Preface d’André Levinson. Paris, 1922. Folio, original cream paper covers, custom chemise. $7500. Click for more info Signed limited first French edition, one 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. A gifted painter, Bakst is best remembered for the sets and costumes he designed for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in the early decades of the 20th century. “Bakst’s greatest claim to theatrical glory lies in his feeling for synthesis, in his impeccable instinct for harmony” (Levinson). Without rare slipcase. Plates and text fine, only minor wear to spine of fragile original paper covers. A beautiful copy.