Oliver Messel - Costume Design for a Guard I
Oliver Messel - Costume Design for a Guard I
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OLIVER MESSEL
(1904-1978)
Costume Design for a Guard - I
Signed l.r., and indistinctly inscribed u.r.
Watercolour heightened with silver paint over chalk, with red fabric swatch attached.
Framed
35 by 23.5 cm.; 13 ¾ by 9 ¼ in.
(frame size 57 by 44.5 cm., 22 ½ by 17 ½ in.)
Provenance:
From the Collection of Roy Astley
Born in London, Messel was the grandson of the illustrator Linley Sambourne. After Eton he studied art at the Slade School of Art and by the early 1930s had established himself as one of Britain’s principal stage designers. Initially working for the Cochran Revues, he went on to design for many theatrical, operatic, ballet and film productions. His books included Stage Designs and Costumes, 1933; Designs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1957 and Delightful Food, 1958. He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries and Redfern Gallery and also designed interiors and gardens of the Dorchester Hotel, Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire and elsewhere as well as several houses and grounds in Barbados and Mustique. The Victoria & Albert Museum hold the majority of his design archives.
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Costume Design for a Guard - ISigned l.r., and indistinctly inscribed u.r.Watercolour heightened with silver paint over chalk, with red fabric swatch attached.Framed35 by 23.5 cm.; 13 ¾ by 9 ¼ in.(frame size 57 by 44.5 cm., 22 ½ by 17 ½ in.)Provenance:From the Collection of Roy AstleyBorn in London, Messel was the grandson of the illustrator Linley Sambourne. After Eton he studied art at the Slade School of Art and by the early 1930s had established himself as one of Britain’s principal stage designers. Initially working for the Cochran Revues, he went on to design for many theatrical, operatic, ballet and film productions. His books included Stage Designs and Costumes, 1933; Designs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1957 and Delightful Food, 1958. He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries and Redfern Gallery and also designed interiors and gardens of the Dorchester Hotel, Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire and elsewhere as well as several houses and grounds in Barbados and Mustique. The Victoria & Albert Museum hold the majority of his design archives.){kind=link}