Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Léon BakstWW-1924-134772

1924·Silk, twill weave; screen printed·139.1 × 99.1 cm (54 3/4 × 39 in.)

<p>Bakst traveled to America in 1922, when he was invited to Baltimore by Mr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett to design the conversion of the gymnasium in their home, Evergreen House, to a theater. He made sketches, which were turned into stencils for painted images on the columns and celing of the room. After his return to Paris in April 1923, Bakst was invited by an American named Selig to design textiles for his firm. This American production, to which all four of Allerton's Bakst fabrics belong, is similar in character to the decoration of the Evergreen Theater.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1924
Medium: Silk, twill weave; screen printed
Dimensions: 139.1 × 99.1 cm (54 3/4 × 39 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Léon Bakst

Artist

Léon Bakst

Painting

Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, 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.

Grodno, Belarus

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