9. [BAKST, Léon [Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg] (1866-1924)]. Feya kukol. La Fée des poupées [The Doll Fairy]. Complete set of 12 postcards, printed in colors, most heightened with gilt, designed by L. Bakst with the original envelope and the folded descriptive leaf in Russian and French; issued to benefit the St. Evgenya Red Cross Society and lithographed in color by A. Ilin, St. Petersburg, 1904. Each card 140 x 95 mm. Condition: cards in excellent condition, the descriptive leaf with split at fold, the envelope holed and torn with slight loss.
rare complete set of postcards in the original envelope. Bakst was the most important costume designer of his generation. He helped found the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group with Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre Benois in 1898. He established himself as a major costume designer with these costumes for Josef Bayer's ballet Feya kukol at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg in February, 1903. Benois thought they were Bakst's indisputable masterpiece. But it was for his contribution to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes beginning in 1909 that Bakst earned his greatest fame. (12)
est. $1500 – $2000
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