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Costume design for 'La nuit ensorcelée': Mireille
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Léon Bakst (1866-1924)
Costume design for 'La nuit ensorcelée': Mireille
signed and dated 'Bakst/23' (lower left), with inscription '"La nuit ensorcelée"/Mireille' (upper left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver and gold, on paper
17¾ x 11 5/8 in. (45 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed in 1923
Costume design for 'La nuit ensorcelée': Mireille
signed and dated 'Bakst/23' (lower left), with inscription '"La nuit ensorcelée"/Mireille' (upper left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver and gold, on paper
17¾ x 11 5/8 in. (45 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed in 1923
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 November 1984, lot 115.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
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