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Designing Dreams

A Celebration of Leon Bakst

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Nick Mauss
Collage of two drawings by Leon Bakst:
"Vaslav Nijinsky in l’Après-midi d’un Faune" (1912)
and "Fabric pattern" (1923)

Léon Bakst
Nègre Diamant (costume study for Scheherazade)

1910

Pencil and gouache, heightened with gold on paper
38 x 27 cm
Waddesdon, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust); ac. no. 727.1995
Photo: Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor.

Léon Bakst
May (costume study for La Nuit ensorcelée )

1923

Graphite and watercolour on paper
44.9 x 29.3 cm
Collection NMNM, N° 1991.1.2
© NMNM / Photo: Marcel Loli

After Léon Bakst
Brigand (Costume for Daphnis et Chloé)

c. 1912

97 x 116 cm
Collection NMNM, N° 2006.27.2
© NMNM / Photo: Marcel Loli

After Léon Bakst
Friend of the queen (Costume for Thamar)

c. 1912

Sleeveless dress with silk faux waistcoat panels, cotton apron and skirt with matching satin coat and pill-box hat
Collection Fondation Alexandre Vassiliev
© Fondation Alexandre Vassiliev
Photo: Ivan Kaydash - Cyrille Gassiline

After Léon Bakst
Model set for Scheherazade

1910

Gouache on paper and wood
58 x 60 x 50.5 cm
Archives Société des Bains de Mer
On permanent loan to NMNM, N° D.2010.2.145
© NMNM / Photo: Mauro Magliani & Barbara Piovan

Léon Bakst
Etude de motif

1923 - 1924

Gouache on paper
52.2 x 65 cm
Collection Kournikova gallery
© Kournikova gallery

Yves Saint-Laurent
Ensemble: Brassiere and Pants
Collection Saint-Laurent – rive gauche
Spring-Summer 1991

Collection Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent
© Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris / Photo: Guy Marineau