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Léon BAKST
Grodno 1866 - Paris 1924 Russian painter Russian Artist XIXth-XXth century...
The artist named Léon Samoilovitch Rosenberg comes from a modest Jewish family.
In 1891, Léon Rosenberg chooses to take his grandfather's name and carries on his studies as Léon Bakst at the Beaux-Arts Academy of St-Petersburg.
In 1893, Bakst takes the lessons given by the orientalist painter Léon Gerome.
Léon Bakst makes often trips to Greece and North Africa.
Its during the year 1905 that Léon Bakst realised the scenography for the Exhibition of historic Russian portraits, and in 1906 he went to the Paris Fall Show.
During his life in Russia, Léon Bakst teaches Marc Chagall. Next to that, he leaves Russia and heads to France where he lives his life. He settles in Paris where he shows 39 canvas paintings (at the Bernheim-Jenne Gallery).
As attached as Bakst is of his Russians roots, he also both appreciates and suggestively interprets other styles such as the Occident or the Orient ones.
As a talented artist, Bakst knows how to take profit of his knowledge (got from people and from schools) to help his personal inspiration, easily refering to Beardsley for instance.
As a painter, Léon Bakst proved a powerful and sophisticate personality.
His painting shows in turn orient, old Russia, Greece or even French and Italian romanticism.