Yvonne Blake - Costume design for the film “Music of Yesterday”
Handwritten inscription by the artist, in pencil, in the upper right corner: “ ”Musica de Ayer“ - / Laura - / Travel Outfit - / (honeymoon trip-)”. Signed and dated 1958 in the lower right corner. Black pencil, watercolor, and black ballpoint pen on agarbanzado paper. Dimensions: 345 x 234 mm.
Costume sketch for a female character in the Spanish film *Música de Ayer*, released in 1958 and directed by Juan de Orduña, produced by Producciones Orduña Films, in which Ana María Olaria plays the lead role of Laura Gayán.
The renowned film and theater costume designer Yvonne Blake (Manchester 1940–Madrid 2018) won her Academy Award at the 44th ceremony for Best Costume Design for the film *Nicholas and Alexandra* (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1971), the same ceremony at which Charlie Chaplin received his Honorary Oscar.
Blake is remembered as the designer of the Superman costume (directed by Richard Donner, 1978) worn by Christopher Reeve; the filming was plagued by issues related to the fabric and color tones of the fictional hero’s outfit.
She won four Goya Awards in Spain for Best Costume Design for *Remando al viento* (1988), *Canción de cuna* (1994), *Carmen* (2003), and *El puente de San Luis Rey* (2004).
Her film costume designs appeared in movies starring prominent actors and actresses such as Sophia Loren (*The Venus of Anger* in Israel, directed by Daniel Mann, 1966), Liza Minnelli (*Fahrenheit 451*, directed by François Truffaut), Michael Caine and Omar Sharif ( The Last Valley, directed by James Clavell), Anthony Hopkins (All Creatures Great and Small), Elizabeth Taylor (An Hour in the Night), Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn (Robin and Marian), Ava Gardner (Harem), Al Pacino (Looking for Richard), not to mention his significant contribution to the musical Jesus Christ Superstar (by Andrew Lloyd Webber).
She collaborated with the prestigious Peris Hermanos fashion house, beginning in the 1960s, on the final production of her designs. With Gonzalo Suárez, she worked on *Rowing Against the Wind*, *Don Juan in Hell*, *The Anonymous Queen*, and *The Detective and Death*; with Vicente Aranda, on *Carmen* and *Tirante el Blanco*.
Although not an actress herself, she was the first woman to be awarded the National Film Award in 2012 and served as President of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016. He died in Madrid in July 2018.
Handwritten inscription by the artist, in pencil, in the upper right corner: “ ”Musica de Ayer“ - / Laura - / Travel Outfit - / (honeymoon trip-)”. Signed and dated 1958 in the lower right corner. Black pencil, watercolor, and black ballpoint pen on agarbanzado paper. Dimensions: 345 x 234 mm.
Costume sketch for a female character in the Spanish film *Música de Ayer*, released in 1958 and directed by Juan de Orduña, produced by Producciones Orduña Films, in which Ana María Olaria plays the lead role of Laura Gayán.
The renowned film and theater costume designer Yvonne Blake (Manchester 1940–Madrid 2018) won her Academy Award at the 44th ceremony for Best Costume Design for the film *Nicholas and Alexandra* (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1971), the same ceremony at which Charlie Chaplin received his Honorary Oscar.
Blake is remembered as the designer of the Superman costume (directed by Richard Donner, 1978) worn by Christopher Reeve; the filming was plagued by issues related to the fabric and color tones of the fictional hero’s outfit.
She won four Goya Awards in Spain for Best Costume Design for *Remando al viento* (1988), *Canción de cuna* (1994), *Carmen* (2003), and *El puente de San Luis Rey* (2004).
Her film costume designs appeared in movies starring prominent actors and actresses such as Sophia Loren (*The Venus of Anger* in Israel, directed by Daniel Mann, 1966), Liza Minnelli (*Fahrenheit 451*, directed by François Truffaut), Michael Caine and Omar Sharif ( The Last Valley, directed by James Clavell), Anthony Hopkins (All Creatures Great and Small), Elizabeth Taylor (An Hour in the Night), Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn (Robin and Marian), Ava Gardner (Harem), Al Pacino (Looking for Richard), not to mention his significant contribution to the musical Jesus Christ Superstar (by Andrew Lloyd Webber).
She collaborated with the prestigious Peris Hermanos fashion house, beginning in the 1960s, on the final production of her designs. With Gonzalo Suárez, she worked on *Rowing Against the Wind*, *Don Juan in Hell*, *The Anonymous Queen*, and *The Detective and Death*; with Vicente Aranda, on *Carmen* and *Tirante el Blanco*.
Although not an actress herself, she was the first woman to be awarded the National Film Award in 2012 and served as President of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016. He died in Madrid in July 2018.
