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Bakst, Léon Bakst, Léon: project design for Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Léon Bakst's set design for the 1909 Ballets Russes production of Cléopâtre. Bakst, Léon: set design for Daphnis et Chloé Léon Bakst's stage design for Ida Rubinstein's production of “Salomé” (1912). Bakst, Léon: the Wolf from Sleeping Beauty L'Après-midi d'un faune Leon Bakst: costume design for Ballets Russes Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
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Also Known As Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg
Born May 10, 1866 • Russia
Died December 27, 1924 (aged 58) • Paris • France

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Bakst, Léon
Bakst, Léon: project design for Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Léon Bakst's set design for the 1909 Ballets Russes production of Cléopâtre.
Bakst, Léon: set design for Daphnis et Chloé
Léon Bakst's stage design for Ida Rubinstein's production of “Salomé” (1912).
Bakst, Léon: the Wolf from Sleeping Beauty
L'Après-midi d'un faune
Leon Bakst: costume design for Ballets Russes
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
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