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Lot 254 · Russian Paintings

costume design for the page of the cherry fairy from a production of the sleeping beauty

Lev Samoilovich Bakst

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Estimate
£10,000–£15,000 hammer ≈ $19,570–$29,355
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Russian Paintings, London · 10 June 2008
Record ID
TB-2026-3770838
Record
first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Lev Samoilovich Bakst, costume design for the page of the cherry fairy from a production of the sleeping beauty. Sotheby's, 10 Jun 2008, lot 254. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3770838.

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Lev Samoilovich Bakst, costume design for the page of the cherry fairy from a production of the sleeping beauty. Sotheby's, 10 Jun 2008, lot 254. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3770838.

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Untitled Evgeny Rukhin £30,000–£50,000
The Swimmer Peter Belenok £20,000–£30,000
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Sicilian shrine Vladimir Dimitrievich Sverchkov £10,000–£15,000
Young drivers on a bear hunt Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-bel'sky £15,000–£20,000
Three Mongolian scenes Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev £10,000–£15,000

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