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Panel (Dress Or Furnishing Fabric), Designed 1922; produced 1924
This is a Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric).
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Art Institute of Chicago as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
Best known for his stage and costume designs for the Ballets Russes, Léon Bakst created textiles for Clingen and Selig that were an artistic and commercial success for both designer and producer. Bakst arrived in the United States in 1920 through the patronage of Mrs. John Garrett of Baltimore, whose husband was ambassador to France.
It is credited Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.184.
- Drawing (France)
- brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper.
- 1955-126-1
- Drawing, Textile Design for Ballet "Scheherazade", ca. 1920
- brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper.
- 1955-126-2
- Textile, Scheherazade
- silk.
- Transfer from the Archive of the Color Association of the United States.
- 1980-35-1
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Textile, Elephants
- patterned weave, jacquard loom; silk.
- Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1926.557.
- 48.2016.17
Its dimensions are
140 x 100.3 cm (55 1/8 x 39 1/2 in.) Repeat: 26.4 x 51.2 cm (10 3/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
