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Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Самойлович Бакст), born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1866 – 27 December 1924), was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed the décor for such productions as Carnaval (1910), Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis and Chloe (1912), The Sleeping Princess (1921) and others. (From Wikipedia) More about Léon Bakst:
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5 additional books about Léon Bakst in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Story of Leon Bakst's life (Brentano's], 1922), by André Levinson and Léon Bakst (page images at HathiTrust)- Special Exhibition of the work of Léon Bakst, December 17th, 1914 (s.n., 1914), by Art Association of Montreal, Martin Birnbaum, and Léon Bakst (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of an exhibition of original works by Leon Bakst (Buffalo, New York, 1913), by Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Martin Birnbaum, and Boston Art Club (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of an exhibition of drawings by Léon Bakst. With a prefatory note by Huntley Carter. ([London, 1912), by ltd. Fine Art Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst : The story of Leon Bakst's life, by André Levinson, illust. by Léon Bakst and Amedeo Modigliani (Gutenberg ebook)
Books by Léon Bakst: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924, illust.: The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer) (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), ed. by Edith Wharton, contrib. by Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Paul Bourget, Rupert Brooke, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad, Vincent d' Indy, Eleonora Duse, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Robert Grant, Thomas Hardy, Paul Hervieu, William Dean Howells, Georges Louis Humbert, Henry James, Francis Jammes, Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Maurice Maeterlinck, Edward Sandford Martin, Alice Meynell, Paul Elmer More, Anna de Noailles, Josephine Preston Peabody, Lilla Cabot Perry, Agnes Repplier, Henri de Régnier, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmond Rostand, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, André Suarès, Edith Matilda Thomas, Herbert Trench, Emile Verhaeren, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Barrett Wendell, Margaret L. Woods, and W. B. Yeats, also illust. by Max Beerbohm, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Walter Gay, Jean Léon Gérôme, Charles Dana Gibson, E. René Ménard, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Théo van Rysselberghe, and John Singer Sargent
Additional books by Léon Bakst in the extended shelves:- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924, illust.: Bakst : The story of Leon Bakst's life, by André Levinson, also illust. by Amedeo Modigliani (Gutenberg ebook)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Oeuvres de Léon Bakst (Paris, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Russkīĭ muzeĭ Imperatora Aleksandra tretʹego (Izd. I.N. Knebelʹ, 1906), also by Alexandre Benois, I. N. Knebelʹ, and Russkīĭ muzeĭ Imperatora Aleksandra III. (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Souvenir (New York, 1916), also by inc. Metropolitan Ballet Company and Serge Diaghilev (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Sovremennyĭ balet. Izdano pri neposredstvennom uchastīi L.S. Baksta. (T-vo R. Golike i A. Vil'borg], 1911), also by Valeri︠ia︡n I︠A︡kovlevich Ivchenko (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Special Exhibition of the work of Léon Bakst, December 17th, 1914 (s.n., 1914), also by Art Association of Montreal and Martin Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: Story of Leon Bakst's life (Brentano's], 1922), also by André Levinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924: T︠S︡arʹ Dodon (Obezʹi︠a︡nʹi︠a︡ Velikai︠a︡ Volʹnai︠a︡ Palata, 1921), also by Alekseĭ Remizov (page images at HathiTrust)
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