Léon Bakst I
From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.
Léon Bakst was a Russian artist, his fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein.
Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently.”
A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
Léon Bakst was a Russian artist, his fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein.
Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently.”
A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
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From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.
Léon Bakst was a Russian artist, his fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein.
Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently.”
A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
Léon Bakst was a Russian artist, his fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein.
Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently.”
A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
