Tracing of a Ballet Costume: Woman in Ruffles

Léon Bakst Russian

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Drawing with a tracing for a ballet costume for 'La Nuit Ensorcelée,' created by Léon Bakst in 1923. The design is consists of an off-shoulder dress with high waist, layered, wide sleeves, and calf-length skirt with overlapping scales, bordered with strips of dots. The hair is tied back, and covered with a kerchief, tied around the head and forming a small knot on the back of the neck.

Tracing of a Ballet Costume: Woman in Ruffles, Léon Bakst (Russian, Grodno 1866–1924 Paris), Pencil on two sheets of tracing paper glued together

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