Sir Cecil Beaton
Eric Porter's costume for Ferdinand King of Navarre, 'Love's Labour's Lost', 1954
watercolour over ink
44.5 x 19 cm
17 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
17 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
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...
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."