Costume Study for "Jeux", 1913

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, graphite and black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 33.5 x 49 cm (13 3/16 x 19 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Howard Sturges

Accession Number

1956.9.15

Artists / Makers

Lev Samoilovich Bakst (artist) Russian, 1866 - 1924

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: DEFENSE DEREPRODUIRE / CES DESSINS. / L.Bakst / 1913.; upper center in graphite: "JEUX" / M[e?] NIJINSKY; upper right in graphite: "JEUX" / Mme KA RSAVINA / Mme SCHOLLAR

Provenance

Howard Sturges [d. 1955], Providence, Rhode Island; bequest 1956 to NGA.

Associated Names

Sturges, Howard

Exhibition History

1985: Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, Washington, D.C., 1985.