Art | December 01, 2005

Art Feature: Leon Bakst & Kris Somerville

Kris Somerville ,Leon Bakst

Impatient with academic formalism, Serge Diaghilev, a charismatic, furiously energetic former law student, founded the World of Art movement in St. Petersburg in October 1898.

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