Sketchbook

Collection Data

Description
Artist's sketchbook, probably from his 1907 visit to Greece and Crete.
Names
Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924 (Costume designer)
Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924 (Set designer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1907 (Questionable)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: (S) *MGZGV-Res.
Topics
Costume design -- 20th century
Dance -- Greece
Genres
Costume design drawings
Set design drawings
Sketchbooks
Notes
Restriction: By appointment only. To make an appointment email dance@nypl.org.
Content: Rectos numbered in pencil; leaves [31]-[37], [39]-[69], [71]-[74], [76]-[80] blank. The numbered leaves do not include 18 leaves which have been removed.
Content: Illustrations: pencil, and pencil-watercolor sketches of Grecian landscapes, buildings, people, seascapes, costumes, many from Knossos.
Content: Four pencil sketches and one watercolor-pencil sketch laid in between leaves [39] and [40].
Statement of responsibility: Leaf [1] signed: L. Bakst, Hôtel Grande-Bretagne Athènes.
Content: Includes the artist's annotations in Russian.
Physical Description
Pencil works
Watercolors
Extent: 1 sketchbook ([80] leaves) : pencil and watercolor ; 21 cm.
1 page is not attached to sketchbook and is in a sleeve behind the sketchbook in the binding.
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY926049188-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12172396
Photo Order: 60224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 15af8da0-b609-0136-512a-7f223aff6ad5
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