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See how the bright blue scarf cuts a V through the dark coat and its patchy tan trim, just below the broad pink face.
Léon Bakst designed sets and costumes for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes from 1909 and lived in Paris from 1912. Modigliani painted him in 1917 on a small canvas, showing only his head and shoulders, and Bakst kept the picture himself. Thin lines around both eyes and across the nose show a pair of rimless glasses.
oil on canvas · overall: 55.3 x 33 cm · National Gallery of Art · School of Paris
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Léon Bakst
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884 - 1920
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 55.3 x 33 cm (21 3/4 x 13 in.) framed: 78.1 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm (30 3/4 x 22 x 1 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Chester Dale Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.