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BAKST, Leon [Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg] (1866-1924

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Complete set of 12 postcards designed by L. Bakst with the original envelope and the 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 140 x 95 mm. Condition: all unused, verso to one card slightly toned, repairs to envelope edges. 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 designs for Josef Bayer's ballet Feya kukol at the Hermitage Theater in St. Peterburg 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.

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