Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst - "Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple" - image-1
Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst - "Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple" - image-2
Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst - "Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple" - image-1Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst - "Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple" - image-2

Lot 24 Dα

Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst - "Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple"

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 11:00 - Russian Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 13.640 € (incl. premium)
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Probably Léon (Lev Samoylovich or Laib-Chaim Israelevich Rosenberg) Bakst

"Orphée I acte Jeunes Filles conduissant Eurydice au Temple"

With an inventory number in pencil to the reverse. Gouache, silver and gold-bronze paint, partially fixed with gum arabic, over pencil on machine-made laid paper, laid down on thin card. 34.5 x 48.5 cm. Inscribed in pencil "Bakst 1914" (later?) to the lower right of each figure. - The lower edge trimmed, the upper left corner replaced, early creases and studio traces.

The opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck was performed for the first time in Vienna in 1762. Sergei Diaghilev may have planned a production with the Ballets Russes in Paris for which Bakst produced this design in 1914.
An assessment report from the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS) is available for this work.