A Fantasy on Modern Costume

Artist Daniel Jacomet (French, 1894 - 1966)

Artist After Léon Bakst (Russian, 1866 - 1924)

Date1922; published 1927

MediumPencil lithograph with watercolor

DimensionsImage: 12 13/16 × 9 13/16 inches (32.54 × 24.92 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 13/16 inches (32.4 × 25 cm)

Credit LineGift of H. Marie White through her mother Mrs. Nellie E. White

Object numberR63-20/3

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Exhibition History

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 60, as XVII. A Fantasy on Modern Costume.

Encore Degas! Ballet, Fashion, and Movement, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 20, 2021–November 21, 2022, no cat.

Gallery Label

Léon Bakst helped revolutionize ballet in the early 1900s. His colorful stage sets and costume designs for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1909–1929) drew inspiration from across the world. This design of teal and purple cloth with floral forms illustrates Bakst’s preference for bright colors, contrasting patterns, and sheer fabrics—quite different from the tutus of Degas’s era. In fact, Bakst’s ballet costumes influenced high fashion.

Provenance

Nellie Elizabeth White (née White, b. 1877), Kansas City, MO;

Possibly inherited by her daughter, Hazel Marie White (b. ca. 1904), Kansas City, MO, by September 12, 1963;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

Louis Réau et al., Inedited works of Bakst (New York: Brentano’s, 1927), 73, 77, (repro.), as A fantasy on modern costume.

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 8, as XVII. A Fantasy on Modern Costume.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 312, as XVII. A Fantasy on Modern Costume (Costume for Ida Rubinstein, in Artémis Troublée).

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