Design sketch
Costume design for “The Firebird”
Léon Bakst · 1922
A costume design for Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, created for the Ballets Russes.
- Object number
- HGO-BT-PT-0003
- Type
- Design sketch
- Collection
- Costume design
- Maker / artist
- Léon Bakst
- Date
- 1922
- Place of origin
- Ballets Russes
- Materials & technique
- Watercolour, gouache and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Digitised copy
- Related production / event
- The Firebird (Igor Stravinsky) — Ballets Russes
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- In storage — Collection store — basement (illustrative)
Keywords: Design sketch · Ballet · Bakst
The story of the object
Léon Bakst used gold and saturated colour so that the costume would seem to blaze under the stage lights — the very spirit of The Firebird.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- Public-domain digitisation on Wikimedia Commons.
- Acquisition
- Sample digital record for this demo
- Digitisation
- High-resolution photography
- Rights
- Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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