Thanks darlin’,lovely study!
thetranscendentalmodernist:Costume for Tamara Karsavina in ‘The Firebird’ - Leon Bakst - c. 1909
For BillyJane, because she shares a birthday with Leon Bakst, for whenever she returns :)
Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade,1910
[me:blushing;]
thank you dear i12bent
Léon Bakst shares a birthday with The Belle of Belgrade, known to all Tumblrs of taste as billyjane, so this one goes out to her: Congrats, bj!!
And dig her Bakst collection here…
Above: Léon Bakst, Caricature of Picasso - via Beinecke Library
[Michel Georges-Michel. “Un cubiste à l’Académie Nationale de musique.” Je sais tout, 1920. Caricature of Picasso by Leon Bakst.]
Leon Bakst costume for Tamara Karsavina in L’Oiseau de feu/Firebird ballet
[Жар-птицa is one of my favorite fairy tales;]
some of you may have figured it out,some maybe not,but it’s my birthday today,not that I feel any more different then yesterday….
I’ve recently figured that i share it with mr.Leon Bakst
so expect some more of his work today;]
Costume for Salome, by Oscar Wilde 1908
from turnofthecentury & Performing Arts
Leon Bakst ~the Peri from “Peri”,1911
via NYPL
[I’ve just noticed,i share b/d with this master,how lovely;]
[more Bakst at t.o.t.c.]
adski_kafeteri: Romaine Brooks
edit:Léon Bakst, Costume for dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) in the leading male role in Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Le marthyre de Saint Sébastien, 1912.
thanks to liquidnight’s good eye
oh yes,she’s adorable;]
spartakus:turnofthecentury:Leon Bakst~ Narcisse Bacchante,1911