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."
Exhibitions
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, Andy Warhol and Cecil Beaton - Design and Draughtsmanship, March-May 2000 (no.24)1
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