Léon Bakst 88 High Resolution Images

Discover the colourful and flamboyant world of Russian artist, costume designer and book illustrator Léon Bakst with this fabulous set of his paintings and drawings.

This download features 88 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Léon Bakst.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3128 pixels wide/tall to 7152 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

Léon Samoylovich Bakst (1866-1924), born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed the décor for such productions as Carnaval (1910), Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis and Chloe (1912), The Sleeping Princess (1921) and others.

Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg was born in Grodno, Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus) into a middle-class Jewish family. As his grandfather was an exceptional tailor, the Tsar gave him a very good position, and he had a huge and wonderful house in Saint Petersburg. Later, when Leyb's parents moved to the capital, the boy Leyb would visit his grandfather's house every Saturday. He said that he had been very impressed as a youth by that house, always returning with pleasure. At the young age of twelve, Leyb won a drawing contest and decided to become a painter. However, the parents disapproved of it and even threw away his paints.

Read our full Leon Bakst biography.