Léon Bakst
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Léon Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Rus
Self-Portrait, 1893, oil on cardboard, 34 × 21 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Carnival in Paris in Honour of the Russian Navy; c. 20th-century.
Uriel da Costa (1897), an imaginary portrait of the 17th century critic of contemporary religious orthodoxies, was one of Léon Bakst's earliest paintings
For Cléopâtre by Mikhail Fokine; 1910.
The Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part h
Léon Bakst
…with the Ballets Russes. He produced scenery for Cléopâtre (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), L'après-midi d'un faune (1912) and Daphnis et Chloé (1912). During this time, Bakst lived in western Europe because, as a Jew, he did not have the right to live permanently…
Programme illustration by Léon Bakst for the ballet
Menelaus intending to strike Helen is struck by her beauty instead. Louvre museum, Campana collection acquired 1861
A design by Léon Bakst for the stage setting
The Faun locks arms with the nymph