Word: bakst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic duty. Baltimore and Washington, Berlin and Buenos Aires, Paris and The Hague knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features of her home, some of her costumes. To her theatre at "Evergreen" she invited special guests...
...Modern artists flayed as Ananiases: John W. Alexander, Alma-Tadema, Bakst, Blashfield, Bonnat, Allan Clark, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Gerome, Laszlo, Manship, Mestrovic, Sargent, Lorado Taft, Zuloaga...
...Modern Theatre," Mr. F. W. C. Hersey, Emerson J. The lecture will be illustrated with slides of stage settings by Gordon Craig. Bakst, Joseph Urban. Robert Edmond Jones, and other artists and producers...
Despite the flaunting settings of the late scenic designer Leon Nicolaievich Bakst, the audience kept its eyes upon d'Annunzio and off the stage. Mindful of the warnings of their priests, they listened to the Debussy score as little as possible and almost completely ignored the singers, among whom was Madame Ida Rubinstein of Paris. Only when an opportunity to cheer d'Annunzio occurred, did the audience seem in the least at ease. It rose time and again to acclaim...
Died. Leon Bakst, 58, famed Russian painter and stage-designer; in Paris, after a long illness. (See Page...