Russian  Theatre Sketch 

Ballet "Scheherazade"

Costume design

Golden Slave and Zobeide 

Ballet

1913

Sign Leon Bakst

Art Nouveau, Orientalism

size of painting  : 42 x 30 cm

Stamp : Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

Hand painted

Gouache, gold paint on paper

Condition is good

Without  frame

Leon Bakst was a Russian painter, costume and textile designer. 

Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov in 1888 and based One Thousand and One Nights  (also known as The Arabian Nights).

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