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Lot 177 · Russian Paintings and Works of Art

Costume designs for Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien

Lev Samoilovich Bakst · pencil and watercolor, heightened with gold and silver, on paper laid on card

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Estimate
$8,000–$12,000 hammer
Result
Performance
Sale
Christie's — Russian Paintings and Works of Art, New York · 24 April 2006
Dimensions
10 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (27.3 x 40 cm.)
Record ID
TB-2026-5694736
Record
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Lev Samoilovich Bakst, Costume designs for Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien. Christie's, 24 Apr 2006, lot 177. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5694736.

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From the same sale Russian Paintings and Works of Art · Apr 2006

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Trees Aleksei Konstantinovich Korovin (1897-1950) $5,000–$7,000
Pontassieve from the River Arno, Tuscany KONSTANTIN ALEKSANDROVICH WESTCHILOV (1877-1945) $25,000–$30,000
Sleeping Nude Zinaida Evgen'evna Serebriakova (1884-1967) $300,000–$400,000
At the Well Iulii Iul'evich Klever (1850-1924) $18,000–$25,000
River Landscape at Sunset IULII IUL'EVICH KLEVER (1850-1924) $12,000–$18,000
A Street in Pskov Arnol'd Borisovich Lakhovskii (1880-1937) $6,000–$8,000

Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band

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Lev Samoilovich Bakst Costume design for Hyppolite $7,017 Bonhams, Nov 2016
Lev Samoilovich Bakst Costume design for an Egyptian dancer Sotheby's, Jun 2006
Lev Samoilovich Bakst edited works of Bakst Sotheby's, Apr 2006
Lev Samoilovich Bakst Costume Design for Dorothée from Les femmes de bonne humeur Sotheby's, Nov 2011
Lev Samoilovich Bakst three costume designs for don juan Sotheby's, Nov 2012
Lev Samoilovich Bakst Study of a Veiled Woman and a Dancing Boy Sotheby's, Nov 2003
Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin Russian Winter Sotheby's, Nov 2005
Lev Samoilovich Bakst Set Design Sotheby's, Jun 2006

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