Helene de Sparte ballet by L. Bakst 05, 1912

Design for pollux's costume in 'hélène de sparte' salmina-haskell (1989) 10. Graphite and watercolour with gold paint on off-white paper. Sheet: 280 x 208 mm. Signed in graphite lower right: bakst; inscribed in graphite upper right: "hélène de sparte" / costume de pollux / prèmier costume; in graphite lower right: mat! / maillot selon la teinte; in graphite lower centre: motif / d'ornament; in graphite left edg the ashmolean museum, oxford. Bequeathed by mikhail vasil'evich braikevitch, 1949; wa1949. 377. Date: 1912.