Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978), Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, gold and silver, in the artist's original mount
10½ x 17¾ in. (26.2 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Provenance
Mrs. A. Norman, Leicester Galleries, 1948.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1990s.
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Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, gold and silver, in the artist's original mount
10½ x 17¾ in. (26.2 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Provenance
Mrs. A. Norman, Leicester Galleries, 1948.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1990s.