Sir Cecil Beaton
Charles Gray's costume for "Marcadé" in 'Love's Labour's Lost', 1954
watercolour over ink
40 x 27 cm
15 3/4 x 10 5/8 in
15 3/4 x 10 5/8 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."