Leon bakst

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Leon Bakst Costume Drawing - Scheherazade - Ballet Russes

Léon Bakst 1866-1924 Rusland

Leon Bakst was an internationally renown painter, costume, and theater set designer. Leon Bakst was born in the year 1866 in what is now the country of Belarus. The artist attended college …

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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