BAKST LEON: (1866-1924)
BAKST LEON: (1866-1924) Russian painter associated with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. A.L.S., Leon Bakst, one page, 8vo, Boulevard Malesherbes, 12th December 1918, to Henry Lapauze, on his monogrammed stationery, in French. Bakst acknowledges receipt of ´tous les originaux et photos que j´ai envoyé à la "Renaissance" excepté un dessin au crayon de mine de plomb collé sur carton - "Les Champs Elysées - (paysage - forêt avec petites figurines)´ (Translation: ´all the originals and photographs I sent to La Renaissance, except for a graphite pencil drawing glued onto card – Les Champs-Élysées (landscape – forest with small figures)´). With blank integral leaf. A pencil annotation in another hand appears at the head of the page. A few very light, extremely minor creases, VG
Henry Lapauze (1867–1925) French art historian, critic, and museum curator of the Belle Époque and the early twentieth century. During World War I Lapauze founded the influential review La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, which promoted both France's artistic heritage and contemporary decorative arts.
BAKST LEON: (1866-1924) Russian painter associated with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. A.L.S., Leon Bakst, one page, 8vo, Boulevard Malesherbes, 12th December 1918, to Henry Lapauze, on his monogrammed stationery, in French. Bakst acknowledges receipt of ´tous les originaux et photos que j´ai envoyé à la "Renaissance" excepté un dessin au crayon de mine de plomb collé sur carton - "Les Champs Elysées - (paysage - forêt avec petites figurines)´ (Translation: ´all the originals and photographs I sent to La Renaissance, except for a graphite pencil drawing glued onto card – Les Champs-Élysées (landscape – forest with small figures)´). With blank integral leaf. A pencil annotation in another hand appears at the head of the page. A few very light, extremely minor creases, VG
Henry Lapauze (1867–1925) French art historian, critic, and museum curator of the Belle Époque and the early twentieth century. During World War I Lapauze founded the influential review La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, which promoted both France's artistic heritage and contemporary decorative arts.
