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Léon Bakst
Russian artist (1866–1924)
Wikipedia ↗
Images on Commons ↗
Wikidata (Q214666) ↗
Details
Instance of
human
Born
27 January 1866
, 10 May 1866
Died
27 December 1924
Place of birth
Hrodna
Place of death
Rueil-Malmaison
Sex or gender
male
Given name
Leib
,
Chaim
,
Lev
,
Leon
Family name
Bakst
Spouse
Lyubov Pavlovna Gritsenko
Child
André Bakst
Genre
portrait
Occupation
painter
,
designer
,
costume designer
,
scenographer
,
draftsperson
,
graphic artist
,
illustrator
,
fashion designer
,
watercolorist
,
theatre designer
,
interior designer
,
artist
Citizenship
Russian Empire
,
France
Awards
Officer of the Legion of Honour
artist files at
Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives
,
Frick Art Research Library
,
College for Creative Studies Library
,
National Gallery of Art Library
birth name
Лейб-Хаим Израилевич Розенберг
depicted by
Self-Portrait
described by source
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
,
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
,
1922 Encyclopædia Britannica
,
Modemuze
,
The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World: Tome 3
documentation files at
SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
educated at
Académie Julian
has works in the collection
Art Institute of Chicago
,
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
,
National Gallery of Art
,
Museum of Modern Art
,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
,
Russian Museum
,
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
,
Tretyakov Gallery
,
National Gallery of Armenia
,
Art Gallery of South Australia
,
Musée d'art moderne de Paris
,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
languages spoken, written or signed
Russian
member of
Mir iskusstva
place of burial
Batignolles Cemetery
pseudonym
Léon Bakst
student
Marc Chagall
student of
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
Terror Antiquus
Portrait of the Filipp Maljawin
Theatrical costumes by Leon Bakst
Portrait of inaida Gippius
Autumn (Vase)
Dinner
Mme Ida Rubinstein
The Butterfly (Costume Design for Anna Pavlova)
Costume Study for Vaslav Nijinsky in the Role of Iksender in the Ballet "La Péri" (The Flower of Immortality), first performed in Paris, 1912
Costume Study for "Jeux"
Portrait of a woman
Anna Pavlova in the Ballet 'Oriental Fantasy'
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Authority files
VIAF ↗
Library of Congress ↗
GND ↗
BnF ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗
Treccani ↗
Subject of
Léon Bakst
EB-12 / Bakst, Leon Nicolaievich
Bakst, Léon
Bakst, Léon
Depicted in
Léon Bakst
Self Portrait.
Self-Portrait
Parent of
André Bakst
Spouse of
Lyubov Pavlovna Gritsenko