A pencil and watercolor on paper painting with a costume design for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe attributed to Lev Bakst, Belarussian, Russian, 1866 - 1924. Signed in pencil: Bakst, and dated 1917 lower right. Stamped on the back: Collection of Mikhail Shuster, Leningrad, B-483. Solomon Abramovich Shuster, 1934 - 1995 - Soviet and Russian art collector, film director. Lev Bakst was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin, who worked mainly in St. Petersburg and Paris. Member of the association Mir Iskusstva, theatrical and artistic projects of S. P. Diaghilev, one of the trendsetters of the European fashion for exoticism and orientalism at the beginning of the 20th-century. He designed the décor for such productions as Carnaval, 1910, Spectre de la rose, 1911, Daphnis and Chloe, 1912, The Sleeping Princess 1921, and others.

Dimensions: Paper 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" in. All measurements are approximate