ʻO Lev Bakst kekahi o nā luna kānāwai o ke ʻano Art Nouveau. He mea pena kiʻi puke, mea pena kiʻi, mea hoʻonaninani, mea kiʻi kiʻiʻoniʻoni, mea hana kiʻi - e like me nā hoaaloha mai ka World of Art society, ua waiho ʻo ia i kahi hoʻoilina.
I ka makahiki 1909, ua ʻae ʻo Bakst i kahi kono mai Sergei Diaghilev e lilo i mea hoʻolālā hoʻonohonoho i kāna ʻoihana Ballets Lūkini. I loko o ʻelima mau makahiki, ua hoʻolālā ʻo ia i nā hana 12, a me nā mea hana no Ida Rubinstein lāua ʻo Anna Pavlova, i kaulana loa ma ʻEulopa. «Narcissus», «Scheherazade», «Cleopatra» — ka French kaulana playwright a me ka poet Jean Cocteau kākau i ka moʻolelo e pili ana i keia a me na ballet i hana me ke komo ana o Bakst. He 10 mau moʻolelo a Cocteau i unuhi ʻia i ka ʻōlelo Lūkini no ka manawa mua loa no kēia puke, i paʻi ʻia no ka makahiki 150 o Bakst. Hōʻike ka album i nā wahi āpau o ka hana a ka mea pena.
Olelo, 200 p.