Tracing of a Ballet Costume: Woman in Ruffles

Léon Bakst

1923 · Pencil on two sheets of tracing paper glued together · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Léon Bakst

Date

1923

Medium

Pencil on two sheets of tracing paper glued together

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Nikita D. Lobanov, 1966