Lot 536
  • 536

Lev Samoilovich Bakst

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lev Samoilovich Bakst
  • set design for Act II of La Pisanelle
  • signed in and dated indistinctly l.r.
  • oil and mixed media on cardboard
  • image size: 33 by 42cm., 13 by 16 1/2 in.

Provenance

The Fine Art Society, London

Exhibited

London, The Fine Art Society, Leon Bakst, 1913, no.61

Condition

The sheet appears sound, with a layer of shiny and uneven varnish. There is craquelure to the areas where paint has been applied most thickly. Held in a simple gold painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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