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ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924) (after Jean Cocteau)

TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Cancan Grand-Mondain": Caryatide

TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored

DATE: 1920

COMMENTS: Satie wrote the musical score for "Cancan Grand-Mondain" for the excentric dancer Caryatide, future Elise Jouhandeau. Élisabeth Toulemont, known as Caryathis or Elyse, former mistress of Charles Dulli

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France,

DANCE FORM: classical ballet

KEYWORDS: costume