Alexandre Benois (1870 – 1960). Costume design for Le Pavillon d’Armide. Watercolor, ink and pencil, SIGNED lower left, mounted and framed. Costume design for a male courtier in the ballet Le Pavillon d'Armide. The work was first presented in 1907 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and later presented by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, 1909. Alexandre Benois (Russian: Александр Николаевич Бенуа, (1870 – 1960) was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir Iskusstva ("World of Art"), an art movement and magazine. As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal influence on the modern ballet and stage design.

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