Drawing, Textile Design for Ballet "Scheherazade"

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1920	Work on this object began.
1955	We acquired this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
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Drawing, Textile Design for Ballet "Scheherazade"

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Léon Bakst. It is dated ca. 1920 and we acquired it in 1955. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

A subdued silk screen-printed textile panel with a black ground that pops with vibrantly-colored, repeating vertical rows of stylized, magenta and mauve and lemon and orange round flowers, possibly sweet williams or phlox, which are accented by smaller floral varieties in blue, mauve, yellow, and orange, with sage green stems and leaves. The linear floral arrangements undulate horizontally with movement and are crossed vertically with columned trellises that are weaving with tumbling, carnation-like orange and yellow flowers, such that a repeating grid, quilt-like pattern is formed, whereby each floral square repeats twenty times.

Object ID #907130243
silk, twill weave; screen printed.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.184.
34.2016.5

Its dimensions are

49.5 x 61 cm (19 1/2 in. x 24 in.)

It is signed

Signed in blue and purple inks, lower right: "Shéhérazade"/ Léon Bakst

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design for Ballet "Scheherazade"; Designed by Léon Bakst (Russian, born Belarus, 1866–1924); France; brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper; 49.5 x 61 cm (19 1/2 in. x 24 in.); 1955-126-2

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cjsi/
Accession Number 1955-126-2
Object ID 18402605