Ballet russe

A design for "Queen of the Night"[/caption] Nineteenth century Russia was restless, and so was Léon Bakst. The young man belonged to a new generation of creatives, one ready to turn Realism on its head with one flick of a bejewelled, utterly fabulous wrist. Today, his name is "a byword for excite

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Costume designed by Giorgio de Chirico for a Sylph in George Balanchine's ballet Le Bal for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1929.

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Léon BAKST | Costume design for Narcisse - La Peri - 1911