[Rarebooks] FS: LEON BASKT DANS LE BALLET RUSSE. 1927.

[Michael John Thompson]

BLANCHE, Jacques-Emile. BASKT, Leon.

LEON BASKT DANS LE BALLET RUSSE. Aquarelles de Leon Baskt.

No place, No date, no publisher [Paris: 1927].

First edition. Folio, self-wrappers. [8] pp. Issued as a supplement 
to L'ILLUSTRATION, Dec 3, 1927. With 9 tipped-in colour plates, 
reproductions of water color costume designs: 1. La reine dans La 
belle au bois dormant. 2. L'amazone. 3. Le roi. 4. Phedre; Thesee. 5. 
Negrillon pour Scheherazade; costume de Barbizon dans La lampe 
d'Aladin. 6. La sultane. 7. Narcisse. 8. Projet de decor pour Daphnis 
et Chloe. 9. Le pirate venitien; costume pour La legende de Joseph. 
Two vertical creases to plate 5, otherwise a fine copy.

Leon Baskt, costume designer for Le Ballet Russe.

A particularly rare item. The illustrations, delicately highlighted 
in gold, are stunning.

$500.00

http://www.mjtbooks.com/images/books/3542.jpg

Terms: As Usual.








---
Michael John Thompson
ABAC / ILAB
5275 Jerow Road
Hornby Island, BC
Canada V0R 1Z0
250-335-1182

http://www.ThompsonRareBooks.com
http://www.BeltaneBooks.com
http://www.Mjtbooks.com