"Lev Bakst: Opening matter" in the gallery "Our artists"
Collection of sketches of the famous fabric decorative painter Leon Bakst show in the new gallery space "Our artists" in Sechenovsky Lane
Gallery "Our artists»,
January 25 - April 15, 2013
Moscow Sechenovsky per. 2
The new gallery space " Our artists "in an exhibition Sechenovsky lane designs fabrics famous set designer Leon Bakst.
Leon Bakst , a brilliant decorator Diaghilev Russian seasons, has earned a reputation far beyond the borders of Russia, is still one of the most recognized and accepted in the West, Russian artists. Author wonderful costumes for the ballet "Scheherazade", "Daphnis and Chloe," "Afternoon of a Faun," he was in demand in other areas of art objects of art. Whimsical design for the theater followed by orders for individual toilets for secular fashionistas decoration balls, masquerades. Style «Baxt» entered the residential interiors and even in everyday fashion.
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Only in 1910, Bakst has decided to engage seriously in fashion, although he used to draw individual costumes. Among his clients were Vladimir von Meck, the Grand Duchess Elena, Elena Olive, Ida Rubinstein, Marquise Luisa Casati and others. In Europe, the artist began to cooperate with well-known fashion houses: Worth, Paquin and Poiret.
in America, which he visited twice in the last years of his life, he also succeeded. Lectures on fashion, read in different cities of the continent, attracted large audiences to print magazine Vogue. Cooperation with manufacturers of fabrics was a logical expression of interest to American business as an artist Bakst fashion.
Because sudden death is overseas plans Bakst was not to come true, he left some sketches of fabrics, but also that little in Russia are almost unknown.
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whole collection of his sketches of tissues preserved in America, and now you can get an idea about this aspect of artistic gift by Leon Bakst. Original fantasy artist realized in a variety of ideas: Russian lyrical, colorful Indian, gourmet Indian, African rhythmic, stylish Art Deco - precious loose, they appear to the viewer.
history of this series sends sketches us back to 1924, when Leon Bakst worked with silk textiles Arthur Selig in New York. After the death of the artist sketches of a couple of years it had been in the office of the U.S. attorney, and later appeared in careful hands Alon Bement, director of the Institute of the College of Fine and Applied Arts of Maryland, who handed them to the 1942 International Institute. A few years ago, in search of additional funds for the development of the Institute, its management decided to sell this valuable asset. 33 original designs of fabrics, full of inimitable Leon Bakst, left the walls of the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is in storage, and in excellent condition got to the homeland of their creator.
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At the exhibition the viewer can see and how thumbnails appear on the cloth: some Organizers are printed on silk in the Italian factory Punto Como. Although it happened a hundred years later and was conceived for an art gallery is much harder than it would be for an industrialist Arthur Selig, but "living matter" looks surprisingly impressive and important.
exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual directory with three scientific papers: "Crossing the Atlantic. Fashion and design by Leon Bakst, "Head of the Department of Manuscripts of the Tretyakov Gallery Elena Terkel," American success Leon Bakst "art critic and gallery staff" Our artists "Barbara Ermakova and" Leon Bakst - ethnographer "famous author of many publications on Russian art professor John Boult.
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