Fine example from the limited edition of 600 copies (this being No 386) of this collection of Bakst's previously unpublished pieces.
An outstanding painter, Bakst is best remembered for the costumes and theatrical sets he designed for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. However, the artist's work stretched well beyond that. Along with Bakst's designs of costumes for such ballets as Daphnis and Chloe, The Sleeping Princess and Boris Godounov, this work examines many of artist's other accomplishments. Magnificent illustrations, which include 20 photo-type plates hand-coloured en pochoir, were produced in the French atelier of Daniel Jacomet, one of the leaders in pochoir. They are accompanied by four essays that explore Bakst's life, his contribution to the development of the modern art of Western Europe and artist's unique interpretation of music.
Copies of this work are often found incomplete, as most have been taken apart for their beautiful plates.

Folio (34 x 26 cm). 122, [8] pp., with 30 plates by Bakst, including 20 coloured by pochoir, 5 colour printed and mounted and 5 plain, all with lettered tissue guards, b&w and colour illustrations in text; some offsetting from colour plates as usual. Publisher's white boards with Bakst's vignette to upper cover, original dust-wrappers, kept in original slip-case; corners slightly bumped, dust-wrappers lacking backstrip, slightly sunned.