Bakst, Leon2007-11-272007-11-2719131922The decorative art of Leon Bakst / Appreciation by Arsene Alexandre. Notes on the ballets by Jean Cocteau. Translated from the French by Harry Melvill. London : Fine Art Society, 1913. L'oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La belle su bois dormant: ballet en cinq actes d'apres le conte de Perrault, musique de Tchaikovsky / preface d'Andre Levinson. Paris : M. de Brunoff, 1922.http://hdl.handle.net/2440/39598Images scanned from two Bakst works held in Special Collections.Leon Bakst was an extraordinary costume and scene designer who was closely associated with artists like Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre Benois. He produced many designs for the Ballets Russes, some of which we present here.145959 bytes180892 bytes157948 bytes172170 bytesimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegBakst, Leon, 1866-1924Ballet RussesCostume designImageSR Theatre Oversize 792.8 A381a SR Theatre 792.8 B169o