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Léon Bakst painted this portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky on the beach at the Lido in Venice in 1909.
In 1910, Boris Kustodiev was invited to sculpt a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II for the centenary of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. The lyceum had been founded in August 1810 by Tsar Alexander I for th...
Konstantin Somov was known by contemporaries as “the singer of rainbows and kisses”. The artist painted retrospective genre scenes, which transformed and theatricalised reality – one of the main prin...
Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with his Nanny is widely regarded as one of Léon Bakst ’s most outstanding works of portraiture. This painting is probably the most famous image of Sergei Diaghilev, whos...