What is Léon Bakst?
[[Image:Bakst self.JPG|thumb|200px|[[Self-portrait]], 1893]] [[File:Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) 02 by L. Bakst 2.jpg|thumb|300px|Scene for [[Scheherazade]]]] [[File:Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) 02 by L. Bakst.jpg|thumb|300px|Scene for [[Scheherazade]]]] '''Léon Samoilovitch Bakst''' (10 May 1866 – 27 December 1924) was a [[Russia]]n [[Painting|painter]]. He designed the sets and [[costume#Theatrical costume|costumes]] for some of [[Diaghilev]]'s [[Ballets Russes]] [[production]]s. These were ''Cleopatra'' (1909), ''Scheherazade'' (1910), ''Carnaval'' (1910), ''Narcisse'' (1911), ''[[Le Spectre de la Rose]]'' (1911), and ''Daphnis et Chloé'' (1912). Bakst died in 1924 in [[Paris]]. In late 2010, the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] presented an [[exhibition]] of Bakst's costumes and prints.<ref>[http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/features/Costume/1739_Designers_Speak/1739_Leon_Bakst/index.html Victoria and Albert Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411070131/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/features/Costume/1739_Designers_Speak/1739_Leon_Bakst/index.html |date=2009-04-11 }} retrieved December 16, 2009</ref> == Ballets Russes costume designs == <gallery> Image:Costume_of_Cleopatra_for_Ida_Rubinstain.jpg|Cléopatre, 1909 Image:Léon Bakst 001.jpg|''[[The Firebird]]'', 1910 Image:Bakst Nizhinsky.jpg|[[Nijinsky]] in ''L'après-midi d'un faune'', 1912 Image:Le Dieu Bleu Nijinsky.jpg|Bakst costume design for The Blue God </gallery> == Notes == {{Reflist}} == Sources == * Marc Chagall, ''My Life'', St.-Petersburg, Azbuka, 2000, {{ISBN|5-267-00200-3}} == Other websites == {{commons category}} * [http://www.leon-bakst.com Leon Bakst (official website)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930045712/http://leon-bakst.com/ |date=2015-09-30 }} * [http://www.groningermuseum.nl/index.php?id=1260 Working for Diaghilev] * [http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/bakst.html BAKST<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.rollins.edu * [http://wwar.com/mast