Sir Cecil Beaton

1904-1980

Anne Todd's costume for "Princess of France", from Love's Labour's Lost

Ref: 1358

Signed l.r.: Beaton and inscribed with the title 

Watercolour over ink, 47.5 by 25.5 cm

 

Beaton's designs for a production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic in 1954 were his first for a Shakespeare play. John Gielgud wrote of the designs: "The simplicity and ingenuity of the whole design serves the play most admirably and the clothes are beautiful, striking and poetic."

 
 

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