Léon Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg (Russian: Леон (Лев) Самойлович Бакст, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич Розенберг; 27 January (8 February) 1866 –...
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Ballets Russes (section Léon Bakst)
Alexandre Benois, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, and costume designers Léon Bakst and Coco Chanel. The company's productions created a huge sensation, completely...
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Art Deco came from many sources, including the exotic set designs by Léon Bakst for the Ballets Russes, which caused a sensation in Paris just before...
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Bakst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Isaac Moses Bakst (d. 1882), Imperial Russian educator Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Russian painter...
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They included Alexandre Benois, Walter Nouvel, Konstantin Somov, and Léon Bakst. Although not instantly received into the group, Diaghilev was aided by...
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"Tansolymp" in Berlin. Some works from the Lobanov collection Léon Bakst, Narcisse Léon Bakst, Costume of Cleopatra for Ida Rubinstein Alexandre Benois,...
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1897, they brought him to attention of Sergei Diaghilev and the artist Léon Bakst. Together the three men founded the art magazine and movement Mir iskusstva...
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Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
the ballet was by Michel Fokine and the libretto was from Fokine and Léon Bakst. The Ballets Russes' Scheherazade is known for its traditionally dazzling...
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Daphnis et Chloé (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 8 June 1912, with sets designed by Léon Bakst, choreography by Fokine, and the Orchestre Colonne conducted by Pierre...
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Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
costumes, sets and programme illustrations were designed by the painter Léon Bakst. The style of the 12-minute ballet, in which a young faun meets several...
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Austrian actor Leon Bailey (born 1997), Jamaican footballer Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Russian painter and scene- and costume designer Leon Bates (labor leader)...
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Russes. He worked closely with choreographer Michel Fokine and artist Léon Bakst, and later with other contemporary artists and composers. Nijinsky and...
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Le Dieu bleu (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
Hahn, set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa. Léon Bakst designed the sets and costumes. The ballet was a failure at the premiere...
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piece was made into a short ballet, with costumes and sets by painter Léon Bakst, which was choreographed and performed by the renowned dancer Vaslav Nijinsky...
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1910. Both exotic ballets were choreographed by Fokine, and designed by Léon Bakst. The finale of Cléopâtre inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ballet Sheherazade by Léon Bakst (1910) Program design for Afternoon of a Faun by Bakst for Ballets Russes (1912) Модерн ('Modern')...
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the "Vitebsk" lodge. Between 1908 and 1910, Chagall was a student of Léon Bakst at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting. While in Saint Petersburg...
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from 1888 to 1897. While at the academy, he met Sergei Diaghilev and Léon Bakst. Somov traveled to Italy in 1890 and 1894, and the two winters he spent...
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Vaslav Nijinsky, Léonide Massine, Alexandre Benois, Michel Fokine, and Léon Bakst. The composer's interest in art propelled him to develop a strong relationship...
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The Firebird (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
of Boris Godunov. By 1909, Diaghilev had connected with Michel Fokine, Léon Bakst, and Alexandre Benois, and gained enough money to start his independent...
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Cléopâtre (1909) by Sergei Diaghilev, starring Ida Rubinstein, costumed by Léon Bakst Martha Graham and Halim El-Dabh: One More Gaudy Night (1961) David Nixon...
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of its dancers, all now émigrés. Carabosse's costumes were designed by Léon Bakst; her medieval-inspired costume gave her the silhouette of a rat.[citation...
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St. Petersburg in 1900.” Léon Bakst started working on scenic design and costumes for Les Orientale in 1908. In 1909, Bakst made a name for himself as...
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young intelligentsia of Saint Petersburg, including Alexandre Benois, Léon Bakst and Sergei Diaghilev. Two musical works from this period stand out. With...
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Sir Francis Rose. London: Cassell & Company, 1961. Spencer, Charles. Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes. London: Academy Editions, 1995. Official website...
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Skaryna's Bible, as well as the paintings of Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine and Léon Bakst were returned to Belarus. Viktar Babaryka also came up with a proposal...
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Princess, Diaghilev production, staged by Nikolay Sergeyev, scenes by Léon Bakst 1937, Philadelphia, staged by Catherine Littlefield 1945, San Francisco...
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Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Aleksandr Benois, Kazimir Malevich, Léon Bakst, and Marc Chagall; the scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Semyonov,...
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students that included Alexandre Benois, Konstantin Somov, Dmitry Filosofov, Léon Bakst, and Eugene Lansere. The starting moments for the new artistic group was...
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Cléopâtre (ballet) (category Ballets designed by Léon Bakst)
Pharaoh's Daughter and Aida. The soloist costumes were instead designed by Léon Bakst, and the sets, borrowed from an opera performed at the time at the Mariinsky...
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