Bakst, Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Oversized full colour and black and white hardcover with gilt decorated front board, no dust jacket, in loose protective plastic cover, in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the author to Lord and Lady Alexander. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Used.

Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second Edition. signed by author.

Condition: Near Fine. First Softcover edition. Là on Bakst (1866--1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer 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 dà cor for such productions as Carnaval (1910), Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis and Chloe (1912), The Sleeping Princess (1921) and others He was also a prolific writer, his literary legacy in three languages includes novels, numerous publications in magazines, critics, essays, letters to friends and colleagues This softcover copy has only very slight edgewear There is a gift inscription by the author on the ffep "For Joanna, Merry Xmas, 1979, Charles Spencer" No other marks or damage at all (There is an accompanying Certificate of Authenticity for the signature) . Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Signed by Author. This copy is a little tired. The jacket is faded at the spine and the top edge and there are some closed tears. The top edge of the pages is very dusty. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the endpaper. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Biography & Autobiography. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 74068. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

in-quarto (22 x 32 cm), VII-134 pp., couverture dessinée par Lanceray, frontispice d'après une aquarelle de Léon Bakst, fleurons et cul-de-lampes de Léon Bakst, 93 illustrations en noir et blanc, et en bistre dont 26 en couleur, dans le texte et hors-texte, certaines contrecollées, cartonnage de l'éditeur, toile verte, dos et plat supérieur décorés Tiré à 520 exemplaires numérotés. Exemplaire numéro 221, signé par l éditeur de BrunoffDerra de Moroda : 2453. Magriel : 113Très bon état intérieur,La toile du cartonnage porte une trace ancienne de mouillure.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. (Paris). (M. de Brunoff). 4to. Limited SIGNED edition 120/520 SIGNED by the publisher. T.e.g. Gilt stamping to front cover. Deckled edges. Rebacked. Rubbing and fading to cloth binding. Rubbing and fading to gilt stamping. Slight soiling to covers. Light wear to spine label. Scratches to rear cover. Fraying to cloth binding near front and rear foredges. Repaired cracking to front and rear hinges. Sticker from previous owner to bottom of f.p.d. Light foxing throughout leaves. Light cracking to gutter at top edge of pg. 129. VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition; 150 copies. No. 19 of 150 signed by author with flourish. Light blue cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels, all lightly rubbed. . End papers lightly foxed. One color plate, 12 b/w. Rare. ; 52 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #15). 8vo. 52pp + xi plates. Quarter black morocco with marbled paper sides and a gilt-lettered and bordered leather title label. With a three-colour frontispiece and eleven black and white captioned plates. A tiny trace of wear to several corner tips. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, and the binder's leather name plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A virtually fine copy of this uncommon monograph on the celebrated Russian painter, and scene and costume designer. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 134 pages; Copy #99 of 520 signed by the publisher De Brunoff. Original decorative silk cloth. Tipped in plates. Just a touch of sunning to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good to fine condition. Limited edition. 1/80. Small Elephant Folio. [6], 49pp. (text), 77 leaves (plates), [8]pp. Uncut at fore- and bottom edges. Original gilt-stamped full vellum, with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Top edge gilt. Laid in, an original pochoir-highlighted watercolor signed and dated in pencil by the artist in lower right margin, protected by modern mylar. Mounted photogravure frontispiece portrait of Leon Bakst with his facsimile signature below gravure. Title page printed in red and black. Limitation page with publisher's signature. Additional publisher's signature on verso of first front free endpaper. Historiated head- and tailpieces after Bakst. Chapter titles and initials printed in red. Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg (Bakst), painter and stage designer, realized his greatest artistic success in the Alesandrinksy and Maryinsky theaters, and later from 1901 to 1921 with Diaghilev at the Ballet Russe where he designed more productions than any other artist. Theater and costume designs for more than ten ballet works appear in this splendid deluxe edition containing 77 tipped-in plates, all but one after Bakst, 4 of them folding and 50 in full color, with pochoir highlights. The striking plates of Leon Bakst's stage sets and costumes for the Ballet Russe are accompanied by synopses of the plays by Jean Cocteau for whom they were designed. Bakst's brilliant control of color, line and decoration give his stage pictures a visual rhythm. Color and chromatic combinations were used emotionally and sensuously. The splendid costumes are richly decorated with a myriad of motifs and decorative shapes. Captions for each plate on facing plates. Text in French. Covers with minor smudging, interior in near fine to fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited numbered edition of 250 copies for America; tipped-in signature of Leon Bakst to half-title page; large photo of Bakst tipped in to front endpaper. Full vellum binding, decorative lettering to front board, five raised panels to spine with decorations and lettering in compartments; 14-1/2" tall; 240 pp. Modest warping to boards, moderate foxing to boards and some leaves, discoloration to front endpaper opposite photograph; hinges professionally repaired. -- A beautiful production for one of the most celebrated artists of his day, who was mostly known for his costume & set design for Sergei Diaghilev & the Ballets Russes. The pencil signature is dated the year of his death (he died December, 1924); the photograph is of Bakst late in life, casually dressed, perhaps in a robe. Additional postage required for international shipping, book itself is 10 lbs. with slipcase, prior to packaging. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Original wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The 1922 signed/limited of this elegant collection of Leon Bakst designs for the ballet "La Belle au Bois Dormant" ("Sleeping Beauty"). #236 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH LEON BAKST AND THE PUBLISHER DE BRUNHOFF at the limitation. Clean and VG+ in its original light-brown wrappers, with very mild wear and creasing along the spine and its hinges, and very light offsetting at the front panel's edges. Folio, deckled edges. Includes 54 magnificent tipped-in color plates by Bakst, all in Fine condition (having been well-protected by their captioned tissue-guards). "Ballet en Cinq actes d'apres le conte de Perrault -- Musique de Tchaikovsky -- Preface d'Andre Levinson" (from the title page). Lacking the elusive original slipcase and the glassine dustjacket. A wonderful example of Ballet Russes design from one of its founders, the great Leon Bakst. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bakst, Leon (illustrator). 1st edition. A book displaying 54 stunning coloured plates of Bakst`s designs for the costumes in the ballet, `The Sleeping Beauty`, including 1 plate by Picasso. Original binding with corners and spine reinforced in navy buckram, title gilt a little dimmed. 1 plate little stained. Signed by both Leon Bakst and the publisher, M. de Brunoff. Numbered 281 of 500 copies. Preface by Andre Levinson. Text in French. Lacking original slipcase. Signed. Used book.

Paperback. Condition: g to g+. Limited First edition. 1/500. Folio. [8], 21, [3]pp (text), 54 leaves (plates). Uncut. Original glassine on decorative and printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Book housed in its original decorative green paper covered slipcase, with gold lettering and decoration on spine and along joints. Raised bands. Limitation page signed by both Léon Bakst and Editor Maurice de Brunhoff. Color illustration pasted on title page. Stunning lithographic frontispiece portrait of Bakst after a drawing by Picasso. Decorative head-, tailpiece, and initial. In 1921, the opportunity arose for Sergei Diaghilev, the renown Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, to present Tchaikovski's "La Belle au Bois Dormant" at the Alhambra Theatre, in London using the notes that the Ballet Master Nicholas Sergeyev had kept from pre-Revolutionary Russia. It was to be a production of great magnificence designed by Léon Bakst, and the first time the typically Russian, full-length ballet (in five scenes) would be performed in England. Petipa's choreography, preserved through the use of Stepanov notation, was restaged by Nicolas Sergueev, stage manager for the Maryinski Theatre. Bronislava Nijinska, younger sister to Nijinski and also a dancer and choreographer, adjusted several enchaînements and supervised the whole show. Olga Spessivtseva was Aurora, Pierre Vladimirov, the Prince, and Lydia Lopokova alternated with Bronislava Nijinska in the role of the Lilac Fairy. Stanislav Idzikowski proved to be a brilliant Blue Bird. Carlotta Brianza, who had created the title role of Sleeping Beauty in 1890 in Saint Petersburg, played Carabosse this time. The superb scenery and costumes were designed by Léon Bakst. This stunning signed limited first edition contains the complete 54 mounted color plates depicting the exotic, sumptuous, and richly colored costumes and sets designed by Bakst for this memorable London performance. His ingenious designs, in conjunction with Diaghilev's radical and provocative choreography, helped revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive dance. Each of the mounted color plates measures 15 1/4 x 11" (image appr. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4"), and is protected with a captioned tissue guard. One of 500 copies, of which this is No.358. Gold lettering and decoration partly faded on slipcase. Water staining on boards. Glassine age-toned and chipped at tail of spine. Creasing along dust-jacket's spine. Wrappers intact. Book block separating. 11 plates loose. Moderate and sporadic creasing on tissue-guards. Text in French. Slipcase and glassine in overall fair to good, dust-jacket in good, wrappers and interior in good+, plates in very good condition.

Hardcover. First edition. 24 pages in text. 39 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 157 of 500 signed by Bakst & De Brunoff. Frontispiece, a lithograph of Bakst by Picasso and 54 mounted color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. Based on Perrault's classic fairy tale the ballet La Belle au Bois Dormant premiered in the Marinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, on 15th January, 1890 with choreography by Marius Petipa. Diaghilev's Ballet Russes performed the work as The Sleeping Beauty during the 1921 season. Clean, fresh and bright copy. slight wrinkling to front cover free marbled endpaper, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. Three quarter maroon morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Near fine.

1 lettre autographe signée 1 p. 1/2 In-8 18 avril 1918 Encre noire sur feuillet double de papier vergé filigrané "St George's" bleu. En-tête du Negresco. Bon Intéressante lettre de Léon Bakst relative à la décoration d'une ambitieuse pièce. "Votre très aimable lettre me parvient ici et, tout en vous accordant d'avance ma part pour votre journal si intéressant, je dois vous faire savoir que cettemise-en-scène (11 décors), plus de 400 costumes - est remise aux temps plus favorables à un geste d'art assez important. Aussitôt que cette oeuvre (dont ma part est terminée) sera remise sur "le chantier" - je me ferai un plaisir de vous le faire savoir [.]". Bakst aurait aimé en parler de vive voix avec Lapauze. Peintre, décorateur et costumier, créateur des décors et costumes des Ballets russes de Diaghilev (1909-1921).

1 lettre autographe signée 1 p. In-8 carré 12 décembre 1918, 8h du soir Encre noire sur feuillet double. En-tête imprimé au chiffre LB surmonté d'une étoile et adresse du "112, boulevard Malesherbes" Bon Bakstannonce avoirbien reçu "tous les originaux et photos que j'ai envoyé à la "Renaissance" excepté un dessin au crayon de mine de plomb collé sur carton - "Les Champs Elysées - (paysage - forêt avec petites figurines)". La revue La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, crée par Henry Lapauze, avait paru pour la première fois enmars 1918. Mention d'une autre main au crayon à papier, en tête "A-t-on remis les doubles à H. Flament". Peintre, décorateur et costumier, créateur des décors et costumes des Ballets russes de Diaghilev (1909-1921).

Folio (37,5 x 28,5 cm.). 240 S., 1 Bl. mit mont. farb. Frontispiz nach einem Portrait des Künstlers nach einem Gemälde von Amedeo Clemente Modigliani u. 68 (52 farb.) mont. Abb. mit bedr. Orig.-Seidenhemdchen. Dunkelblauer Orig. (?) -Kalikoleinenband mit goldgepr. Rückentitel Derra de Moroda 1656 ("A most beautiful edition"). Hiler S. 542. Niles-Leslie 313. Vollmer I, 100. - Erste englische Ausgabe. - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung der Verleger A. Kogan u. W. Poliakoff ".to the ardent booklover Mr. E. Adler.", dat. "1/2/24". - Opulent ausgestatte, umfangreiche Monographie auf kräftigem seitlich und unten unbeschnittenem Büttenpapier, über eine der schillerndsten Figuren des "Ballets Russe", herausgegeben von dem französischen Tanzjournalisten André Yacovlev Levinson (1887-1933). - "A fine collection of reproductions of Bakst's work for the theatre, mainly settings and costumes for well known ballets presented by the Diaghilev Company, but also including some design for the 'Ballets Ida Rubinstein'." - Der russische Maler und Bühnenbildner Léon Bakst (eig. Lew Samojlowitsch Rosenberg, 1866-1924) gehört zu den Wegbereitern des modernen Bühnendesigns. "Er studierte Kunst in St. Petersburg und Paris. Mit seinem Freund Serge Diaghilew gründete er in St. Petersburg die Künstlervereinigung Mir Iskusstwa (Welt der Kunst), die eine avantgardistische Kunstzeitschrift herausgab. 1908 ging er als politischer Flüchtling nach Paris und schloss sich dem Künstlerkreis um Diaghilews Ballets Russes an, für dessen Ballettproduktionen er Bühnenbilder und Kostüme entwarf. Seine von orientalischen und griechischen Stileinflüssen inspirierten exotischen, leuchtend bunten Entwürfe erregten bald großes Aufsehen und prägten den Stil der Truppe entscheidend" (Bayerische Staatsoper, Biographien). - Bilbiotheksstempel einer englischen Stadtbibliothek verso Titel und den Tafeln, gutes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch.

1 lettre autographe signée 1 p. 1/2 In-8 2 juin 1914 Adresse imprimée en tête "112 boulevard Malesherbes". Encre noire sur papier bleu. Très bon En pleine période d'effervescence des Ballets russes, le peintre et décorateur Léon Bakst se trouvesoulagé par le nouveau traitement prescrit par le correspondant de cette lettre, mais il n'ose en parler à son médecin traitant. "J'ai une foi aveugle en votre traitement et une reconnaissance pour le bien et la tranquillité que chaque visite m'apporte. Je voudrais donc vous avoir comme seul médecin. Mais puisque le docteur Delbèque (aujourd'hui de retour à Paris) veut aller avec moi un de ces jours vous consulter pour le traitement de l'été, veuillez bien ordonner votre traitement et dès lors je ne consulterai que vous. Malheureusement je ne lui ai pas dit aujourd'hui que je suis allé vous voir l'autre jour. Mais, comment faire, quand on a une foi telle que la mienne en votre talent et que je ne veux pas offenser le docteur Delbeque? Du reste, il quitte Paris le 12 juin pour congé. En tout cas, j'ai cru nécessaire de vous écrire ces lignes, en vous remerciant de nouveau pour votre bonté et votre science, qui me donne un soulagement". Peintre, décorateur et costumier, créateur des décors et costumes des Ballets russes de Diaghilev (1909-1921).

LON BAKST (1866-1924). Bakst was a Belarusian Modernist painter who did extensive design work for the Ballets Russes.ALS. 1pg. This Thursday. N.p. An autograph letter signed Leon Bakst written in French. In translation, it reads: Dear Mr. Levy: I dont know if you have already returned my watercolors to the Marsan Pavilion; in any case, if it hasnt been done yet, I very much beg you to send them directly to the Marsan Pavilion at the latest by 2 pm tomorrow since I have to hand them up and it has to be done while everything else is being arranged. Cordially devoted to you, Leon Bakst. The Marsan Pavillion is a wing of the Louvre building in France; it houses the Museum of Decorative Arts. The letter is in fine condition. It is attractively matted and framed with a black-and-white photograph of Bakst, and a typed translation is affixed to the back of the frame.